nomad

 
Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊmad/

noun

  • a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home: the withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the Sahara to descend into the Nile valley the nomads who roam the borderlands of Afghanistan [as modifier]: the Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes
  • a person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer: Dolly was a nomad who had finally taken root in Hawaii

Derivatives

nomadism

noun

Origin:

late 16th century: from French nomade, via Latin from Greek nomas, nomad- 'roaming in search of pasture', from the base of nemein 'to pasture'