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vagrant
Part of speech: AdjectiveWandering from place to place without purpose and without a settled home.
Part of speech: NounOne who strolls from place to place without honest means of support; an idle wanderer; a tramp.
Usage examples "vagrant":- With youth, it is marry- marry, even if within the year you are picked up by the patrol wagon, a vagrant in the streets. - "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly", Hamlin Garland.
- When and how is the burrow obtained wherein the Lycosa, once a vagrant, now a stay- at- home, is to spend the remainder of her long life? - "The Life of the Spider", J. Henri Fabre.
- All of them have been edited to death, reduced to the commonplace by vulgar methods of performance, but are altogether sprightly, delightful specimens of the composer's careless, vagrant and happy moods. - "Chopin: The Man and His Music", James Huneker.