Nomadic

Definition: Nomadic

Nomadic

Adjective

1. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nomadic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Etymology: Nomadic \No*mad"ic\, adjective. [from Greek expression. See Nomad.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Nomadic

Motion

Adjective: moving; Verb: in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless; (changeable); nomadic; erratic.

Crosswords: Nomadic

Nomadic Lives (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Nomadic Shipping ASA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Nomadic Furniture 1 (reference)

• Nomadic furniture 2 (reference)

• Nomadic Nature: A New Gate (reference)

• Nomadic Subjects (reference)

• People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Nomadic Impressions (reference)

• Nomadic Wavelength (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Civil Liberties

Mauritania

Historically there were few restrictions on travel in the country's nomadic society. (references)

Economic History

Libya

Small Tebou and Touareg tribal groups in southern Libya are nomadic or seminomadic. (references)

Oman

In the less-populated areas and among the nomadic bedouin, tribal custom often is the law. (references)

Human Rights

Djibouti

The legal system is based on legislation and executive decrees, French codified law adopted at independence, Shari'a law, and nomadic traditions. (references)

Mongolia

Since 1991, the Government has provided over 400 apartments and gers (a traditional nomadic dwelling of the Mongols), including 54 in the first half of the year. (references)

Indigenous People

India

In February 2000, the NHRC recommended that the Habitual Offenders Act, aimed at the denotified and nomadic tribes, be repealed. (references)

Minorities

Tanzania

In the past, the Government discriminated against the Barabaig and other nomadic persons in the north. (references)

Niger

However, nomadic people, such as Tuaregs and many Peul, continued to have less access to government services. (references)

Ireland

Approximately 25,000 nomadic persons regard themselves as a distinct ethnic group called "Travellers," roughly comparable to the Roma of continental Europe. (references)

Political Economy

Djibouti

Outside the capital city, the primary economic activity is nomadic subsistence. (references)

Western Sahara

Children in the few remaining nomadic groups presumably work as shepherds along with other group members. (references)

Western Sahara

The 15 percent of the territory outside Moroccan control do not have any major population centers or economic activity beyond nomadic herding. (references)

Political Rights

Algeria

The Tuaregs, a people of Amazigh origin, do not play an important role in politics, due to their small numbers, estimated in the tens of thousands, and their nomadic existence. (references)

Women

Libya

Some nomadic tribes located in remote areas still practice female genital mutilation (FGM) on young girls, a procedure that is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references)

Worker Rights

China

However, a substantial number of ethnic Tibetans, mainly young girls from rural or nomadic areas, also work as prostitutes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "nomadic": lead a nomadic existence ♦ nomadic cropping ♦ nomadic desk ♦ nomadic operating mode ♦ nomadic wireless access. Additional references.

Beginning with "nomadic": nomadic-style.

Ending with "nomadic": semi-nomadic.

Albanian

nomad (nomad), shtegtues (migrant, migratory, nomad, peregrine). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مترحل (migratory, rover, roving), ‏هائم على وجهه (errant, nomad), ‏جوال (drifter, roamer), ‏رحال (traveling, travelling), ‏بدوي (bedouin, nomad). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скитнически (migratory, roving, vagabond, vagabondish, vagrant), чергарски (vagabond), номадски (nomad, vagabond). (various references)

Chinese 

游牧. (various references)

Czech

nomádský, koèovný (itinerant, migrant, nomad, wandering). (various references)

Danish

nomadeflok (migratory herd, nomadic flock, nomadic herd), vandrende faareflok (nomadic flock, nomadic herd), vandoende faareflok (migratory herd, nomadic flock), svedjebrug (Ash farming, Burn-beating, Burning, nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation), flyttemarksbrug (nomadic cropping, roving agriculture, shag, shifting agriculture, shifting cultivation). (various references)

Dutch

zwervend (migrating), nomadisch. (various references)

Esperanto

nomada. (various references)

Farsi 

چادرنشین (Nomad), وابسته به کوچ گری . (various references)

Finnish

vaeltava lauma (migratory herd, nomadic flock, nomadic herd), vaeltava lammaslauma (migratory herd, nomadic flock, nomadic herd), laidunaluetta vaihtava lammaslauma (migratory herd, nomadic flock). (various references)

French

nomade (nomad). (various references)

German

nomadisch. (various references)

Greek 

νομαδικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

� ו�" (drifter, nomad, tramp, vagabond, wanderer). (various references)

Hungarian

nomád (nomad). (various references)

Italian

nomade (nomad, roving, wandering), di nomade. (various references)

Korean 

� 목. (various references)

Manx

rouailtagh (itinerant, nomad, ranger, roamer, roaming, rover, roving, stroller, wanderer, wandering). (various references)

Pig Latin

omadicnay

Portuguese

nômade (migrant, nomad, nomadism, wandering). (various references)

Romanian

nomad (migrant, migratory, nomad). (various references)

Russian 

кочевой (nomad). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nomadski (migratory, nomad). (various references)

Spanish

nómada (nomad, wanderer, wandering). (various references)

Swedish

nomadiserande. (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งเร่ร่อนไปในที่ต่างๆ. (various references)

Turkish

göçebeye ait, göçebe gibi, başıboş dolaşan (wandering). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцз (move, nomadic camp). (various references)

Ukranian 

кочовий (migrant, migratory, nomad, wandering), мандрівний (arrant, errant, itinerant, itinerary, migrant, migratory, nomad, peripatetic, wandering), бродячий (knockabout, nomad, rambling, rangy, roving, runagate, strolling, vagrant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nay đây mai đó; du cư (nomad). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "nomadic": seminomadic. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nomadic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: noadic, Nomada, nomade, nomado, nomail, nomatic, nomjadic, nu-matic, Numidia, numidus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: monacid, monadic.

-1 letter: anodic, anomic, camion, daimon, domain, manioc, modica.

-2 letters: amido, amino, amnic, amnio, canid, danio, domic, macon, manic, monad, nicad, nomad.

-3 letters: acid, amid, amin, cadi, caid, cain, ciao, cion, coda, coin, coma, coni, damn, dona, icon, maid, main, mano, mica, mina, mind, moan, modi, naoi, nodi, noma, odic.

-4 letters: ado, aid, aim, ain, ami.

+1 letter: comedian, daemonic, daimonic, demoniac, mandioca, monacids, monoacid.

+2 letters: comedians, companied, compendia, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, dominical, macedoine, mandiocas, monoacids, monodical.

+3 letters: androecium, antidromic, biodynamic, calamondin, calmodulin, championed, coadmiring, coatimundi, codominant, commanding, complained, confirmand, daunomycin, decimation, demoniacal, dicoumarin, dominances, dormancies, macedoines, mastodonic, medication, mendacious, monoacidic, mordancies, nematocide, nonmedical, undogmatic.

+4 letters: accompanied, aerodynamic, cacodemonic, calamondins, calmodulins, coadmitting, coatimundis, codominants, companioned, condimental, confirmands, daunomycins, decimations, declamation, demarcation, demonically, diamondback, dicoumarins, dipsomaniac, endocardium, endoplasmic, hemodynamic, malediction, medications, monodically, motorcading, nematocidal, nematocides, nonacademic, nondogmatic, nondramatic, palindromic, sardonicism, seminomadic, trichomonad, unidiomatic.

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