Outlaw vs Vagrant - What's the difference?
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A fugitive from the law.
A person who is excluded from normal legal rights.
A person who operates outside established norms.
A wild horse.
(humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
To declare illegal
To place a ban upon
To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
To deprive of legal force.
A person without a home or job.
* 2002 , ,
A wanderer.
(ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
* Prior
* Macaulay
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
Outlaw is a related term of vagrant.
As nouns the difference between outlaw and vagrant
is that outlaw is a fugitive from the law while vagrant is a person without a home or job.As a verb outlaw
is to declare illegal.As an adjective vagrant is
moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.outlaw
English
Noun
(en noun)- The main character of the play was a bit of an outlaw who refused to shake hands or say thank you.
Synonyms
* (person that operates outside established norms) anti-heroVerb
(outlaw)- to outlaw a debt or claim
- Laws outlawed by necessity. — Fuller.
External links
* * *vagrant
English
(wikipedia vagrant)Noun
(en noun)WIGU: Day two begins
- Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
- Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants .
- Wigu: I stink.
- Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
Synonyms
* beggar * down-and-out * drifter * itinerant * tramp * wanderer * vagabond * See alsoDerived terms
* vagrancyAdjective
(en adjective)- That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
- While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.
- a vagrant beggar
