What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Nomadic vs Wickiup - What's the difference?

nomadic | wickiup |

As a adjective nomadic

is of, or relating to nomads.

As a noun wickiup is

a domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic native american tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western united states.

nomadic

English

Alternative forms

* nomadick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to nomads.
  • Leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; peripatetic, itinerant.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01
  • , author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore , title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48 , magazine= citation , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.}}

    Anagrams

    *

    wickiup

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
  • * 1992 , Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses :
  • At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.

    References