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nomad

See also: NoMad, nomád, and nómad

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Etymology

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From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.

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Noun

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nomad (plural nomads)

  1. (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
    • 1587, Philippe de Mornay, translated by Philip Sidney et al., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:
      The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...
    • 2013 August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
      Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
  2. (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
  3. (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
    • 2010, J. Knight, Unloved, →ISBN, page 58:
      Once again Judy was a nomad, moving to yet again another destination.
    • 2014, Dan Lovett, Anybody Seen Dan Lovett?: Memoirs of a media nomad, →ISBN, page 10:
      I made my exit down I-75, heading south. After a 40-year odyssey as a media nomad, I will be closing the circle in a place where my life had never been better.
    • 2016, Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense, →ISBN:
      Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.
  4. (figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.
    • 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion, →ISBN, page 282:
      With the recruitment of South Australian football nomad, and eventual legend of the game, Phil Matson, Subiaco would improve considerably in 1912.
    • 2014, Wayne Stewart, Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial, →ISBN, page 49:
      Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis.
    • 2015, Pete Cava, Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players, →ISBN:
      Between 1996 and 2003, Lewis was a baseball nomad. At various times he signed contracts with San Diego, Detroit, Oakland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, the New York Mets, Cleveland, and the Chicago Cubs.

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Derived terms

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Translations

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a wanderer — see wanderer

Adjective

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nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)

  1. Synonym of nomadic.

References

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  • "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French nomade. Compare Aromanian numad.

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Noun

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nomad m (plural nomazi, feminine equivalent nomadă)

  1. nomad

Declension

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Declension of nomad
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) nomad nomadul (niște) nomazi nomazii
genitive/dative (unui) nomad nomadului (unor) nomazi nomazilor
vocative nomadule nomazilor

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /nǒmaːd/
  • Hyphenation: no‧mad

Noun

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nòmād m (Cyrillic spelling но̀ма̄д)

  1. nomad

Declension

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Declension of nomad
singular plural
nominative nòmād nomadi
genitive nomáda nomada
dative nomadu nomadima
accusative nomada nomade
vocative nomade nomadi
locative nomadu nomadima
instrumental nomadom nomadima

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French nomade. Attested since 1766.

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nomad c

  1. nomad

Declension

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Declension of nomad 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nomad nomaden nomader nomaderna
Genitive nomads nomadens nomaders nomadernas

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