Meaning & Definition of Vagabond in English

1. Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place

• "Pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"

2. A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

1. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

• "The gypsies roamed the woods"

• "Roving vagabonds"

• "The wandering jew"

• "The cattle roam across the prairie"

• "The laborers drift from one town to the next"

• "They rolled from town to town"

1. Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community

• "Led a vagabond life"

• "A rootless wanderer"

2. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

• "A drifting double-dealer"

• "The floating population"

• "Vagrant hippies of the sixties"