Runaway vs Vagabond - What's the difference?
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A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes limitations.
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A train that is out of control.
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(usually attributive) An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium.
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The act of running away, especially of a horse or teams.
An overwhelming victory.
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
Runaway is a related term of vagabond.
As nouns the difference between runaway and vagabond
is that runaway is a person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes limitations 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.As an adjective vagabond is
floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.runaway
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Alternative forms
* run-awayNoun
(en noun)- Runaway children are vulnerable to criminal exploitation.
- Thou runaway , thou coward, art thou fled?
- There was a runaway yesterday.
- The home side won in a runaway .
Usage notes
This word is frequently used attributively, as in "runaway X" to mean "an X which has run away" or "an X which is out of control".vagabond
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Noun
(en noun)- A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
Synonyms
* See alsoHypernyms
* 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.
