clochard

noun

Definition of clochardnext
as in hobo

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Recent Examples of clochard In summer the clochards like to live along the quay, sleep under the bridges. — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clochard
  1. hobo
  2. beggar
  3. drifter
  4. panhandler
  5. vagabond
  6. tramp
  7. waif
  8. mendicant
Noun
  • Most bestsellers, including the Cyme tote and Numéro Neuf, sit between 340 and 590 euros, with the new Shuldo hobo at 640 euros.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 31 July 2026
  • Chanel walked several burgundy options down the runway, from their flap bag to a chic hobo bag.
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 31 July 2026
Definition of hobo
Noun
  • Robert Pattinson’s big outburst in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ has gone viral—here’s the ‘beggars’ meme, explained.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Antinous shocked even the other suitors by insulting and assaulting an elderly beggar; when the beggar revealed himself as Odysseus and slew the suitors, Antinous was the first to die.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 July 2026
Definition of beggar
Noun
  • Babylon 5 followed the diplomats, soldiers, and drifters aboard the station, built as neutral ground between humans and a handful of alien civilizations teetering on the edge of war.
    — JP Mangalindan, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026
  • According to Rouse, the album grew out of observations gathered while traveling, with its songs populated by drifters, dreamers and fleeting encounters that blur the line between fiction and autobiography.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of drifter
Noun
  • Some worry about robots replacing human jobs, even panhandlers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Cops have released photos of a suspect wanted for gunning down a panhandler inside a Manhattan 7-Eleven last week, in hopes someone recognizes him.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
Definition of panhandler
Noun
  • Anyway, no longer satisfied with making sure that the theatrical trains run on time, Anna is a national parks vagabond, going from job to job, never laying down roots.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
  • His divorces ultimately left him scrambling for stability and turned him into a kind of moneyed vagabond, living out of suitcases.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 May 2026
Definition of vagabond
Noun
  • Plus, the police are looking for a tramp (David Wilmot) who lives in the forest nearby, and may know something about what happened to her.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026
  • More than half a century into his imposingly prolific, restlessly searching career as a songwriter, Springsteen has fulfilled the prophecy he was born into as a young tramp.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of tramp
Noun
  • Everyone was chasing a waif look.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • More like a woman who had written a book and less like a lost waif.
    — Allegra Goodman, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2026
Definition of waif
Noun
  • Throughout much of Buddhist history, and particularly in Theravada Buddhist contexts, mindfulness and its associated meditation methods have been the purview of mendicants (monks and nuns), who used mindfulness meditation to achieve trance states (jhana) leading to nirvana.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • An internationally famous leader who lived a mendicant’s life.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Definition of mendicant

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