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Nomad vs Peripatetic - What's the difference?

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Peripatetic is a synonym of nomad.



As nouns the difference between nomad and peripatetic

is that nomad is a member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc while peripatetic is one who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.

As an adjective peripatetic is

tending to walk about.

nomad

English

Noun

(wikipedia nomad) (en noun)
  • A member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads , wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • A wanderer.

    • Derived terms

    * grey nomad * nomade * nomadic * nomadism

    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , nòm?d, nomadi , nomáda, nomada , nomadu, nomadima , nomada, nomade , nomade, nomadi , nomadu, nomadima , nomadom, nomadima }}

    peripatetic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * peripatetick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to walk about.
  • Constantly travelling; itinerant; nomadic.
  • (usually, capitalized) Having to do with Aristotle, his philosophy, or the school of thought which he founded.
  • * Howell
    • The true peripatetic school.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
  • (usually, capitalized) One who accepts the philosophy of Aristotle or his school; an Aristotelian.
  • * 1961 , Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics , 11:
    • He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.

    Synonyms

    * (one who walks) itinerant, pedestrian, nomad

    Anagrams

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