as in nomadic
traveling from place to place
bands of vagrant children in the streets of the impoverished city
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as in beggar
a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living
vagrants sleeping in cardboard boxes on the sidewalk
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as in bum
an idle worthless person
the vagrants who are a familiar sight at the city's bus terminal
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Recent Examples of vagrant
Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
The vagrant bird could have wandered off course in search of other members of its species or it may have been displaced by extreme weather, ornithology experts told the outlet.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Arundhati Roy identifies as a vagrant.
—Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Because of its rare appearance in the Northern Hemisphere, many birders are flocking to catch a glimpse of the vagrant gull.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
The vagrant bird could have wandered off course in search of other members of its species or it may have been displaced by extreme weather, ornithology experts told the outlet.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
Indeed, a study of early 19th-century court records found that in Philadelphia, nearly half of those convicted as vagrants were African American — a figure wildly disproportionate to the city’s minority Black population.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Arundhati Roy identifies as a vagrant.
—Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vagrant
Adjective
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After two decades, the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is becoming nomadic.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
22 Jan. 2026
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View gallery - 8 images Commissioned for a customer who wants to enjoy a nomadic retirement, the Tiny Birdy has a compact interior layout that sleeps up to two people and runs fully off-grid with solar power.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Jan. 2026
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In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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The adventurous actress dirties up her frock and face to play the village pariah, who reeks of fish and would be no man’s idea of a suitable wife, except perhaps the one-eyed bum who sleeps in the town square.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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The series’ script comes from Park Jae-bum, who is known for his work on Vincenzo and Good Doctor.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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New this season are nomad-style cooking workshops, starlit movies for younger campers, and sunrise hawk walks.—
Katharina Kotrba,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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In fact, she was also seen wearing these kicks in New York back in May, pairing the sneakers her aforementioned Hammitt hobo bag with gunmetal grommets.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
21 Dec. 2025
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One mask depicts a frowning hobo with a 5 o'clock shadow that represents the aforementioned vagrant.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Dec. 2025
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Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2025
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As historian Kelly Lytle Hernández writes, one thing that stood in the way of this vision was the figure of the tramp.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2025
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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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This interstellar vagabond presumably formed in a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around another star, the sites of active planet formation.—
Darryl Seligman,
Space.com,
15 Dec. 2025
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Researchers also subsequently observed transients hovering on at least 124 above-ground nuclear tests at sites that were active from 1951 until the launch of Sputnik in 1957.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
25 Dec. 2025
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Zwicky, which scans the night sky with a wide-field camera, has a reputation of enabling astronomers to discover transients or fleeting cosmic phenomena, such as quickly flaring supernovae.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Vagrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vagrant. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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