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Expatriate vs Vagabond - What's the difference?

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Expatriate is a related term of vagabond.


As adjectives the difference between expatriate and vagabond

is that expatriate is of, or relating to, people who are expatriates while vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

As nouns the difference between expatriate and vagabond

is that expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

As verbs the difference between expatriate and vagabond

is that expatriate is to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of while vagabond is to roam, as a vagabond.

expatriate

English

(wikipedia expatriate)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
  • * an expatriate mailing list

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives outside one’s own country.
  • One who has been banished from one’s own country.

    • Synonyms

    * * outland

    Derived terms

    * expat * rex-pat, rex-patriate

    Related terms

    * inpatriate * repatriate

    See also

    * immigrant * emigrant

    Verb

    (expatriat)
  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  • To withdraw from one’s native country.
  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.

    • Related terms

    * repatriate * patriate

    vagabond

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  • One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
  • * Bible, Genesis iv. 12
    • A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * person

    Related terms

    * extravagant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roam, as a vagabond

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  • * Milton
    • To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
  • * 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
    • Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
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