nomad

noun

no·mad | \ ˈnō-ˌmad

, British also ˈnä-\

Definition of nomad

1 : a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory For centuries nomads have shepherded goats, sheep, and cattle across the … semiarid grasslands … — Discovery

2 : an individual who roams about He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long.

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He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long. after college she became quite the nomad, backpacking through Europe with no particular destination

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The Quains are not the only family that has of late dispensed with the trappings of the American dream (house, school, career) and gone nomad. — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, "Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did.," 14 Apr. 2018 Last summer, after years as a nomad, Justin bought a house outside Toronto. — Rob Haskell, Vogue, "Justin and Hailey Bieber Open Up About Their Passionate, Not-Always-Easy but Absolutely All-In Romance," 7 Feb. 2019 Fibre Tibet Throw Stay warm on the couch and help preserve Himalayan artisan traditions with this cozy cashmere throw, woven from handspun cashmere collected by Tibetan nomads. — David Thielebeule, WSJ, "Style Director David Thielebeule’s Gift Guide: The Great Indoors," 11 Dec. 2018 People with Sagittarius Venus are drawn to explorers, nomads, and daredevils. — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, "What the Position of Venus in Your Birth Chart Means for You," 31 July 2018 For the Bakarwal and other Muslim nomads, the trouble has often been about land. — Washington Post, "Kashmir nomads wonder what place they have in today’s India," 17 May 2018 That lifestyle fascinated Melissa Ilardo, who first heard about the sea nomads as a graduate student studying corals in Southeast Asia. — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, "Indonesian divers have evolved bigger spleens to hunt underwater," 19 Apr. 2018 The original purpose was to prevent incursions from barbarian nomads in the Third Century B.C. — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, "From 7 to 77: There's been an explosion in building border walls since World War II," 24 May 2018 Another factor: While Ukrainians were primarily peasants, most Kazakhs were nomads. — Sarah Cameron, WSJ, "The Forgotten Soviet Famine," 1 Nov. 2018

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