Fugitive vs Vagabond - What's the difference?
fugitive | vagabond | Synonyms |
A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
fleeing or running away
transient, fleeting or ephemeral
elusive or difficult to retain
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
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
* Milton
* 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
As nouns the difference between fugitive and vagabond
is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.As adjectives the difference between fugitive and vagabond
is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.As a verb vagabond is
to roam, as a vagabond.fugitive
English
(wikipedia fugitive)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)vagabond
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Noun
(en noun)- A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
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* personAdjective
(-)- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- 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.
