vagabond adj

1 wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless]

2 continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagrant]

1 anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"

2 a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater] v : move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift]

English

Etymology

vagabundus, from vagari, ‘wander’.

Pronunciation

• /'vægəbɒnd/
• văg'ə-bŏnd, /'vægəbɒnd/, /"v

Vagabond may refer to:

• Vagabond (person), an itinerant person

In music:

• Vagabond (band), a rock band fronted by Jorn Lande
• Vagabond (song), a song by Australian band Wolfmother
• Vagabond (album), an album by Tony Sheridan
• Jimmy James and The Vagabonds, a UK soul band
• The Four Vagabonds, a musical comedy quartet, popular in the 1940s and 1950s

In fiction:

• The Vagabond, a 1916 film starring Charlie Chaplin
• Vagabond (film), a 1985 film by Agnès Varda
• Vagabond (novel), second book in The Grail Quest series of Bernard Cornwell
• Vagabond (manga), a manga by Takehiko Inoue
• Vagabond (comics), a Marvel Comics Universe character
• Vagabond, a planet in the Perry Rhodan universe
• Vagabond, a Heavy Assault cruiser in the online game Eve Online

Other:

• Vagabond (boat), a French polar yacht
• Vagabond (sailing dinghy)
• Vagabond Inn, an American hotel chain
• Piper PA-15 Vagabond, a civilian airplane
• Vagabonds MC (Belgium), a motorcycle club in Belgium
• Vagabonds MC (Ontario), a motorcycle club in Ontario, Canada
• Vagabond (brand), Swedish shoe brand
• Vagabond (magazine), a Swedish travel magazine

See also

• Leatherman (vagabond), a legendary 19th century vagabond
• Vagabond's disease
• Tales from the Floating Vagabond, a comic role-playing game

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