vagabond

English

Etymology

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

Etymology tree

Old French vagabondder.

English vagabond

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: văg'ə-bŏnd, IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Canada, General American) enPR: văg'ə-band, IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.ɡə.bɑnd/

Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
3. 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.

   Synonyms: vagrant, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond

   • 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Genesis iiij:[12], folio v, verso:

     Foꝛ when thou tylleſt the grounde ſhe ſhall hẽcefoꝛth not geve hyꝛ power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate ſhalt thou be vpon the erth.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:

     Anoleis: You will excuse me if I don't stand up.
     Anoleis: I have no time to entertain spaceborn vagabonds.

Related terms

• extravagant
• vague

Translations

a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time

• Albanian: fatndjekës
• Bulgarian: скитник (bg) m (skitnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浪人 (zh) (làngrén)

• Coptic: ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲱϯ m (sarakōti)
• Czech: tulák (cs) m, vagabund (cs) m
• Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c
• Dutch: vagebond (nl) m, zwerver (nl) m
• Esperanto: vagabondo
• Finnish: kulkuri (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
• Georgian: მაწანწალა (mac̣anc̣ala), მოხეტიალე (ka) (moxeṭiale)
• German: Vagabund (de) m, Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin (de) f
• Hindi: आवारा (hi) m (āvārā)
• Hungarian: vándor (hu)
• Icelandic: umrenningur m
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ja) (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (ja) (fūraibō)
• Macedonian: ски́тник m (skítnik), ски́талец m (skítalec)
• Maori: tipiwhenua
• Polish: włóczęga (pl) m, włóczykij (pl) m, wagabunda (pl) m
• Portuguese: vagabundo (pt) m
• Romanian: vagabond (ro) m
• Russian: стра́нник (ru) m (stránnik), стра́нница (ru) f (stránnica), скита́лец (ru) m (skitálec)
• Serbo-Croatian: lutalica (sh) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dundak m

• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Swedish: vagabond (sv)
• Telugu: జులాయి (julāyi)
• Turkish: avare (tr)
• Welsh: crwydryn m

a bum, a hobo, a tramp, a homeless person

• Bengali: ভ্যাগাবন্‌ড্ (bhêgabon‌ḍ)
• Bulgarian: бездо́мник (bg) m (bezdómnik), ски́тник (bg) m (skítnik), клоша́р m (klošár)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流浪漢 / 流浪汉 (zh) (liúlànghàn)

• Crimean Tatar: bıralqı
• Danish: vagabond (da) c, landevejsridder c, landstryger c, stodder (da) c
• Dutch: vagebond (nl) m, zwerver (nl) m
• Esperanto: vagulo
• Finnish: pummi (fi), kulkuri (fi), irtolainen (fi), asunnoton (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr) m, vagabonde (fr) f
• Georgian: მოხეტიალე (ka) (moxeṭiale), მაწანწალა (mac̣anc̣ala)
• German: Vagabund (de) m, Landstreicher (de) m, Landstreicherin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀλήτης m (alḗtēs)

• Hungarian: csavargó (hu)
• Icelandic: umrenningur m
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ja) (ほうろうしゃ, hōrōsha), 風来坊 (ja) (fūraibō)
• Latin: errō (la) m, planus m
• Macedonian: бе́здомник m (bézdomnik), ски́тник m (skítnik)
• Maori: tipiwhenua, kōripi
• Navajo: naʼałjidí
• Norman: paillard m, vacâbond m
• Persian: ولگرد (fa) (velgard)
• Polish: włóczęga (pl) m
• Portuguese: andarilho (pt) m
• Romanian: vagabond (ro) m
• Russian: бродя́га (ru) m (brodjága), бомж (ru) m (bomž)
• Serbo-Croatian: skitnica (sh) m, tumaralo (sh) m, vagabund (sh) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dundak m

• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m
• Ukrainian: волоцюга (volocjuha), бродяга (uk) (brodjaha)
• Volapük: gliban (vo) m or f, higliban m, jigliban f
• Welsh: gŵr ar gylch m

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• Maori: ^{(please verify)} tiara

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

1. To roam, as a vagabond

Translations

to roam as a vagabond

• Bulgarian: скитам (bg) (skitam), безделнича (bg) (bezdelniča)
• Crimean Tatar: bıralqılamaq
• Esperanto: vagi
• Finnish: reissata
• Georgian: წანწალი (c̣anc̣ali), ხეტიალი (ka) (xeṭiali)
• German: vagabundieren (de)
• Japanese: 放浪する (hōrō suru), 流浪する (ja) (rurō suru)
• Maori: tipiwhenua
• Romanian: vagabonda (ro)
• Russian: скитаться (ru) impf (skitatʹsja)
• Swedish: ströva (sv), luffa (sv), vagabondera (sv)

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.

   • 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover:

     Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.

Translations

Floating about

• Bulgarian: скитнически (bg) (skitničeski)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vagābundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡa.bɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Adjective

vagabond (feminine vagabonde, masculine plural vagabonds, feminine plural vagabondes)

1. vagabonding

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

1. vagabond

Derived terms

• courant vagabond
• vagabondage
• vagabonder

 

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: ma cà bông, ma-cà-bông

Further reading

• “vagabond”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• vagabund

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɡaˈbuŋd/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabond)

1. vagabond

Related terms

• vagabondé

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vagabond.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ɡaˈbond/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

1. tramp (a homeless person)

Swedish

Noun

vagabond c

1. vagabond

   Synonym: lösdrivare

Declension

Declension of vagabond

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vagabond	vagabonds
	definite	vagabonden	vagabondens
plural	indefinite	vagabonder	vagabonders
	definite	vagabonderna	vagabondernas