noun · rare

vagrant

va·grant

vagrant · vagrants

негідник, розбійник, волоцюга

бродяга, бомж, бомжиха

Sandler, Landstreicher, Vagabund, Gammler

A person who wanders from place to placeA person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

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/ˈveɪɡɹənt/

» If you meet a vagrant or a beggar, it's good to give them some money.

Meaning

4 senses

(dated)A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
Landstreicher, Landstreicherin
скита́лецskitálec, скита́лицаskitálica, стра́нникstránnik
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
(specifically)A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.
Vagant, Vagantin, Gammler
бомжbomž, бомжи́хаbomžíxa, бродя́гаbrodjága
Any member of the species Vagrans egista of widely distributed Asian butteflies of the family Nymphalidae.
(especially)An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
Ausnahmegast, Irrgast

Examples

3 sentences

If you meet a vagrant or a beggar, it's good to give them some money.
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To clear the country of vagrants and convicts, France encouraged them to settle in Algeria.
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Police say he got the boys from the South Pattaya pier area where there are a lot of vagrant children.
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Translations

8 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

person who wanders from place to place — see also nomad, wanderer:

person without settled employment or habitation who supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means — see also tramp, vagabond:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

person who wanders from place to place — see also nomad, wanderer:

person without settled employment or habitation who supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means — see also tramp, vagabond:

animal found outside its species’ usual range:

Origin

From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fix

From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”) [and other forms], perhaps influenced by Latin vagārī, the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, stroll about; to roam, rove, wander”). Old French walcrant is the present participle of vagrer, wacrer, walcrer (“to wander, wander about as a vagabond”) [and other forms], from Frankish *walkrōn (“to wander about”), the frequentative form of *walkōn (“to walk; to wander; to stomp, trample; to full (make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing)”), from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about, wallow; to full”), *walkaną (“to turn, wind; to toss; to roll, roll about; to wend; to walk; to wander; to trample; to full”),

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