VAGABONDS Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of vagabond

as in beggars

a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living be wary of the vagabonds in that corner of the city

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as in nomads

a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination after they retired, the couple bought an RV and became footloose vagabonds

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vagabonds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of vagabond

as in tramps

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Recent Examples of vagabonds

Noun

Decades before his lens moved between nocturnal vagabonds in the East Village and names such as Diana Vreeland, William Burroughs, and Fran Lebowitz, the young man realized the power of his eye. — Osman Can Yerebakan, Air Mail, 2 May 2026 There are no talking-head interviews putting addiction into a moral context, nor are there romanticized vagabonds. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025

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Noun

Dhaka’s rundown streets peppered with the homeless, vendors and child beggars.

— Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of beggars

Noun

On the side streets, small stands sell bad food and plastic trinkets, while a few Travellers, Ireland’s indigenous nomads, work rival fortune-telling franchises.

— Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
Jason and his family are living like multiversal nomads, traveling to different worlds in search of a home, and this lets the show get into the nitty-gritty of how the box works and the rules for traveling between worlds.

— Andrew Webster, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of nomads

Noun

The former, in which Burnett and Hamilton did a song-and-dance routine as Dust Bowl-era hobos, marked the first of several times that the two performed together.

— Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
From oversized, slouchy hobos to structured East-West silhouettes and laptop-ready work totes, this season’s best suede bags deliver a luxurious polish that will elevate every fall wardrobe.

— Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025

Definition of hoboes

Noun

In a California town called Anzar in the late-19th century, Paulette is living with a local magnate’s eccentric son who’s fascinated by the tramps gathering outside his manor.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026

Definition of tramps

Noun

And yet, despite America’s best efforts, in the midst of this horror, millions of artists, travelers, and inventors created love, and light.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
But treating solo travelers as an audience rather than an accommodation is harder.

— Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of travelers

Noun

Across the planet, most populations of monarch butterflies—in Spain, in Hawaii—are likely descended from vagrants that veered off the Mexico migration path.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
In August, Denver fined GFI $140,000 for letting the building become a magnet for vandals, vagrants and urban explorers who trespass and post videos on TikTok.

— Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 9 July 2026

Definition of vagrants

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

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