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Vagabond vs Peripatetic - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between vagabond and peripatetic

is that vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time while peripatetic is one who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.

As adjectives the difference between vagabond and peripatetic

is that vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro while peripatetic is tending to walk about.

As a verb vagabond

is to roam, as a vagabond.

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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    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

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