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Peregrinating vs Vagabond - What's the difference?

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Peregrinating is a related term of vagabond.


As verbs the difference between peregrinating and vagabond

is that peregrinating is while vagabond is to roam, as a vagabond.

As a noun vagabond is

a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

As an adjective vagabond is

floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

peregrinating

English

Verb

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    • 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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