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vagrant

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Definition:

(n) A wanderer who has no permanent living place. One who changes jobs or homes frequently.

(adj) Without roots or sense of permanence; homeless and hapless.

Pronunciation: VAY - grent
Also Known As: Hobo; drifter; vagabond; wanderer; transient; dispossessed
Examples:

When I was six, I preferred to wear mismatched shoes and clothing, as if I wanted to look like a vagrant beggar.

"But the Seven Sleepers had a dog; and dogs of the mysterious breeds that vagrants own, that are as much like cats as dogs and as much like foxes as cats, also lay about here."


From The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy

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