Nomad

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
  • n. A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
  • n. a wanderer
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
  • adj. Roving; nomadic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wandering: same as nomadic.
  • n. A wanderer; specifically, one of a wandering tribe; one of a pastoral tribe of people who have no fixed place of abode, but move about from place to place according to the state of the pasturage; hence, a member of any roving race.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rover    roamer    wanderer    bird of passage   
    Variant
    nomadic   
    Hyponym
    Hun    Beduin    Scythian    Saracen    Bushman    Bedouin   
    Form
    nomadism    grey nomad    nomadic    nomade   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    roving    nomadic    wanderer    wandering   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barbarian    nomadic    outlaw    bandit    tribesman    pirate    invader    raider    refugee    Gypsy