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Roaming vs Vagabond - What's the difference?

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Roaming is a related term of vagabond.


As verbs the difference between roaming and vagabond

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

As nouns the difference between roaming and vagabond

is that roaming is (countable) an instance of wandering while 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.

roaming

English

(wikipedia roaming)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) An instance of wandering.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 15, author=Judith Martin, title=It Started in Naples, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings , and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.}}
  • (uncountable, telecommunications) The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.
  • (uncountable, computing, telecommunications) The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.

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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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