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Wandering vs Vagrant - What's the difference?

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Wandering is a related term of vagrant.


As adjectives the difference between wandering and vagrant

is that wandering is which wanders; travelling from place to place while vagrant is moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

As nouns the difference between wandering and vagrant

is that wandering is travelling with no preset route; roaming while vagrant is a person without a home or job.

As a verb wandering

is .

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)
  • vagrant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person without a home or job.
  • * 2002 , , WIGU: Day two begins
  • Paisley: What smells like dinosaur crap?
    Mother: Your brother wants people to think we’re vagrants .
    Wigu: I stink.
  • A wanderer.
  • Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.
  • (ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
  • Synonyms

    * beggar * down-and-out * drifter * itinerant * tramp * wanderer * vagabond * See also

    Derived terms

    * vagrancy

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
  • * Prior
  • That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
  • * Macaulay
  • While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.
  • Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
  • a vagrant beggar