vagabond

  • (s) wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
    • led a vagabond life
    • a rootless wanderer
    rootless,
  • (s) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
    • a drifting double-dealer
    • the floating population
    • vagrant hippies of the sixties
    drifting, vagrant, aimless, floating,

Nouns

  • (n) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
    • pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea
  • (n) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support drifter, vagrant, floater,

Verbs

  • (v) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
    • The gypsies roamed the woods
    • roving vagabonds
    • the wandering Jew
    • The cattle roam across the prairie
    • the laborers drift from one town to the next
    • They rolled from town to town
    roam, rove, stray, wander, ramble, range, swan, drift, tramp, cast, roll,

Synonyms

roam rove stray wander ramble range swan drift tramp cast roll rootless drifting vagrant aimless floating drifter floater

Words of close approximity

vagabondage