Thesaurus:vagabond

Thesaurus

vagabond

English

Noun

Sense: person without a fixed dwelling and usually without a steady livelihood

Synonyms

• bum
• casual (Britain, dated)
• clochard (especially in France)
• derelict
• dero
• down-and-out
• down-and-outer
• drifter
• epithite (obsolete)
• floater
• gadling
• hobo
• Jack out of doors (obsolete)
• knight of the road (obsolete)
• landleaper
• landloper
• landlouper
• nomad
• paker (obsolete)
• palliard (archaic)
• pike
• piker
• ranger
• rogue
• rolling stone
• rough sleeper (Britain)
• scatterling (obsolete)
• skelder (obsolete)
• skell
• stroller
• stumblebum
• swagman
• swaggie
• toerag
• tramp
• truant (obsolete)
• vagabond
• vagrant
• wanderer    [⇒ thesaurus]
• waif
• yagger (Scotland, archaic)

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• traveller    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• dimber damber
• solivagant
• sturdy beggar (Britain, historical)
• upright man

Children

• gamin
• gamine
• guttersnipe (derogatory)
• street child
• street urchin

See also

• beggar    [⇒ thesaurus]
• idler    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pauper    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “268. traveller” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “876. commonalty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “vagabond” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.