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- Dictionaryva·grant/ˈvāɡrənt/
noun
- 1. a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
adjective
- 1. characteristic relating to or living the life of a vagrant: "vagrant beggars"
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: wandering about from place to place usually with no means of support. b. of an animal : wandering outside its normal geographic range. especially, of a bird : found outside its normal geographic range or migration route : accidental sense 3. 2. a. : having a fleeting, wayward, or inconstant quality. a vagrant impulse. b.
VAGRANT definition: 1. a person who is poor, does not have a home or job, and moves from place to place: 2. a person…. Learn more.
A vagrant is someone who is homeless and poor and may wander from place to place. In fiction a vagrant often is a criminal, but a real-life vagrant might just be a person who has lost a job and family and lives off the streets with help from charity.
Vagrant, vagabond describe an idle, disreputable person who lacks a fixed abode. Vagrant suggests a tramp, a person with no settled abode or livelihood, an idle and disorderly person: picked up by police as a vagrant.
noun. 1. a person of no settled abode, income, or job; tramp. 2. a migratory animal that is off course. adjective. 3. wandering about; nomadic. 4. of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant or vagabond. 5. moving in an erratic fashion, without aim or purpose; wayward. 6. (of plants) showing uncontrolled or straggling growth.
VAGRANT meaning: 1. a person who is poor, does not have a home or job, and moves from place to place: 2. a person…. Learn more.
1. Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support. 2. Living on the streets or constituting a public nuisance. 3. Inconstant or capricious; wayward: "She was resolved to win my vagrant fancy" (Frank Harris). 4. Moving in a random fashion; having no fixed direction or pattern: vagrant ice floes; a vagrant aroma. 5.
/ˈveɪɡrənt/ (formal or law) a person who has no home or job, especially one who begs (= asks for money) from people. The accused was a vagrant who travelled around, sleeping in parks and bus shelters. Culture homelessness) because they have nowhere else to go. In the past, people who had no permanent home were called . Most were older people.
One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance. A tramp, beggar, prostitute, or similar idle or disorderly person whose way of living makes him or her liable to arrest and detention. Wandering from place to place or living a wandering life; roaming; nomadic. Living the life of a vagabond or tramp.
Define vagrant: a person who has no place to live and no job and who asks people for money—usage, synonyms, more.
