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vagrant

Definition of vagrant

a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
archaic a wanderer.
Ornithology a bird that has strayed or been blown from its usual range or migratory route: most birders are hoping to find the wind-blown vagrants of migrationAlso called accidental.

[attributive]

relating to or living the life of a vagrant:vagrant beggars
moving from place to place; wandering:vagrant whales
literary moving or behaving unpredictably; inconstant:the vagrant heart of my mother

Derivatives

late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French vagarant 'wandering about', from the verb vagrer

The ending of vagrant is spelled -ant.

Definition of vagrant in the US English dictionary

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