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Wayfaring vs Vagrant - What's the difference?

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Wayfaring is a related term of vagrant.


As adjectives the difference between wayfaring and vagrant

is that wayfaring is travelling, especially on foot while vagrant is moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

As nouns the difference between wayfaring and vagrant

is that wayfaring is travel, especially on foot while vagrant is a person without a home or job.

As a verb wayfaring

is .

wayfaring

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Travelling, especially on foot.
  • Peripatetic.

    • Noun

  • Travel, especially on foot.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • vagrant

    English

    (wikipedia 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