vagabond

Meaning

Noun

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
2. One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.

Verb

To roam, as a vagabond

Adj

Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Synonyms

vagrant

tramp

wanderer

hobo

stray

rove

wander

loafer

swan

🦢

drifter

homeless

bum

ragamuffin

drift

drifting

homeless person

range

ramble

stroller

ruffian

scamp

aimless

outcast

Bohemian

hoodlum

hooligan

cast

bird of passage

beggar

lazy

traveller

rascal

roam

ragged fellow

floater

roll

floating

rootless

fugitive

dosser

prodigal

profligate

prostitute

prowler

rake

rambler

rapscallion

riff-raff

rogue

ronin

roughneck

roundabout

rover

roving

runabout

satellite

📡

shiftless

skunk

🦨

stall

stiff

stranger

streetwalker

sundowner

swagger

swagman

tatterdemalion

tergiversate

tour

tourist

travel

wastrel

worthless

circumlocutious

runagate

capricious person

rascallion

swaggie

destitute person

useless person

landlouper

street Arab

homeless Roving

idle wanderer

unindustrious

dero

hobo

astray

bad egg

bad lot

blighter

browse

bully

canter

charlatan

cheater

circuit

circuitous

circulate

conger eel

derelict

eel

equivocate

errant

evasive

fidget

gamin

gangster

gipsy

gypsy

hedge

hiker

indolent

Ishmael

journeyer

loiterer

lout

mealymouthed

mendicant

migrant

moocher

move around

nomad

panhandler

peregrine

playboy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/

Etymology

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund.
Etymology tree
Old French vagabondder.
English vagabond