Vagrant Definition

vāgrənt
vagrants
noun
vagrants
A person who wanders from place to place or lives a wandering life; rover.
Webster's New World
A person who wanders from place to place and lives by begging, doing odd jobs, etc.; vagabond.
Webster's New World
A wanderer; a rover.
American Heritage
One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance.
American Heritage
A tramp, beggar, prostitute, or similar idle or disorderly person whose way of living makes him or her liable to arrest and detention.
Webster's New World
adjective
Wandering from place to place or living a wandering life; roaming; nomadic.
Webster's New World
Living the life of a vagabond or tramp.
Webster's New World
Living on the streets or constituting a public nuisance.
American Heritage
Inconstant or capricious; wayward.
American Heritage
Of or characteristic of a vagrant.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Vagrant

Noun

Singular:
vagrant
Plural:
vagrants

Origin of Vagrant

  • From Middle English vagraunt (“wandering about"), from Anglo-Norman wakerant, wacrant, walcrant (“vagrant"), Old French wacrant, waucrant (“wandering about"), present participle of wacrer, waucrer, walcrer (“to wander, wander about as a vagabond"), from Frankish *walkrōn (“to wander about"), frequentative form of *walkōn (“to walk, wander, trample, stomp, full"), from Proto-Germanic *walkōnÄ…, *walkanÄ… (“to twist, turn, roll about, full"), from Proto-Indo-European *walg-, *walk- (“to twist, turn, move"). Cognate with Old High German walchan, walkan (“to move up and down, press together, full, walk, wander"), Middle Dutch walken (“to knead, full"), Old English wealcan (“to roll"), Old English Ä¡ewealcan (“to go, walk about"), Old Norse valka (“to wander"), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged"). More at walk.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English vagraunt probably alteration of Old French wacrant present participle of wacrer to wander of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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