Itinerant vs Vagabond - What's the difference?
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Habitually travelling from place to place.
* Blackstone
One who travels from place to place.
(Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
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 adjectives the difference between itinerant and vagabond
is that itinerant is habitually travelling from place to place while vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.As nouns the difference between itinerant and vagabond
is that itinerant is one who travels from place to place while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.As a verb vagabond is
to roam, as a vagabond.itinerant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an itinerant preacher or peddler
- The king's own courts were then itinerant , being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.
Noun
(en noun)External links
* (wikipedia "itinerant")vagabond
English
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.