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   va·grant

   /ˈvāɡrənt/

   noun

   • 1. a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
   • ▪ a wanderer.
   • ▪ a bird that has strayed or been blown from its usual range or migratory route: "most birders are hoping to find the wind-blown vagrants of migration"

   adjective

   • 1. characteristic relating to or living the life of a vagrant: "vagrant beggars"
   • ▪ moving from place to place; wandering: "vagrant whales"
   • ▪ moving or occurring unpredictably; inconstant: "the vagrant heart of my mother"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vagarant ‘wandering about’, from the verb vagrer.

   Derivatives

   • 1. vagrantly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   • G

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