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- Dictionaryvagrant/ˈveɪɡr(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
adjective
- 1. relating to or living the life of a vagrant: "vagrant beggars"
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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.
noun. va· grant ˈvā-grənt. Synonyms of vagrant. 1. a. : one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support. b. : one (such as a prostitute or drunkard) whose conduct constitutes statutory vagrancy. 2. : wanderer, rover. 3. : an animal wandering outside its normal geographic range.
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.
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.
countable noun. A vagrant is someone who moves a lot from place to place because they have no permanent home or job, and have to ask for or steal things in order to live. He lived on the street as a vagrant. Synonyms: drifter, tramp [old-fashioned], bum [informal], vagabond More Synonyms of vagrant.
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.
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.
VAGRANT definition: someone who has no job and no home and who lives outside. Learn more.
noun. 1. a person who wanders from place to place or lives a wandering life; rover. 2. one who wanders from place to place without a regular job, supporting oneself by begging, etc.; idle wanderer; vagabond. 3. Law. a tramp, beggar, prostitute, or similar idle or disorderly persons whose way of living makes them liable to arrest and detention.
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.
