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Wandering vs Vagabond - What's the difference?

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Wandering is a related term of vagabond.


As adjectives the difference between wandering and vagabond

is that wandering is which wanders; travelling from place to place while vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

As nouns the difference between wandering and vagabond

is that wandering is travelling with no preset route; roaming while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

As verbs the difference between wandering and vagabond

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

wandering

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
  • (medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
    • a wandering''' kidney; a '''wandering liver

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from wandering) * wandering abscess * wandering albatross * wandering cell * wandering dune * wandering Jew * wandering kidney * wandering liver * wandering mouse * wandering pacemaker * wandering sequence * wandering set * wandering spider * wandering tattler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
  • Irregular turning of the eyes.
  • Aimless thought.
  • Straying from a desired path.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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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