Vagabond

Definition of vagabond:

part of speech: adjective

Wandering: having no settled home: driven to and fro: unsettled.

part of speech: adjective

Wandering; without fixed habitation.

part of speech: noun

One who wanders without any settled habitation: a wandering, idle fellow.

part of speech: adjective

Wandering about without fixed dwelling place; roaming; idle and vicious.

part of speech: noun

One who roams about with no permanent abode; especially, an idle fellow without honest means of support; a vagrant or tramp; colloquially, a rascal or worthless fellow.

part of speech: noun

A vagrant.

Usage examples for vagabond:

• " Larsen, you old vagabond I believe you're right; and if that pencil sharpener fellow doesn't give his agency to Barlow"- I grinned as I said this-" I'll- I'll turn him down with a smile!" "Dawson Black: Retail Merchant", Harold Whitehead.

• I fancy she had been fond of that vagabond husband of hers: an enormous wedding- ring encircled her finger, and that, too, was swathed in black. "The Old Man in the Corner", Baroness Orczy.

• He stuck his hands in his pockets, and felt vagabond like and reckless. "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.

• Why, even that vagabond boy was so shocked, that he went all the way to Elbury that very night for it. "Friarswood Post-Office", Charlotte M. Yonge.