Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Vagabond

Definitions: Vagabond

Vagabond

Adjective

1. Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer".

2. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties".

Noun

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

2. A person who has no fixed home.

Verb

1. 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".

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

Date "vagabond" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Vagabond

DomainDefinitions

Bible

Vagabond from Lat. vagabundus, "a wanderer," "a fugitive;" not used opprobriously (Gen. 4:12, R.V., "wanderer;" Ps. 109:10; Acts 19:13, R.V., "strolling"). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

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

Top     

Specialty Definition: Vagabond

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vagabond is a manga, a Japanese comic featuring a legendal samurai, Miyamoto Musashi. The book is based on the story of Miyamoto Musashi by Yoshikawa Eiji.

Vagabond also names an entirely different artistic product, a movie by Agnès Varda, released in 1985, describing the story of a young woman, a vagabond, who is found frozen in a ditch.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vagabond."

Top     

Synonyms: Vagabond

Synonyms: aimless (adj), drifting (adj), floating (adj), rootless (adj), vagrant (adj), cast (v), drift (v), ramble (v), range (v), roam (v), rove (v), stray (v), swan (v), tramp (v), wander (v). (additional references)

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Vagabond

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bad Man

Blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion; cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole; cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel; lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond; rogue; (knave); ronian; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo.

Commonalty

Beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon.

Traveler

Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: Vagabond

English words defined with "vagabond": DrazelGadlingIshmaeliteJavelLandlouper, Loller, LorelPalliardrootless, RunagateScatterlingTwire-pipeVagabondize. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vagabond": Fetter LaneKing of the BeggarsPie Poudre. (references)
Etymologies containing "vagabond": JavelTwire-pipe. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vagabond" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (bum, fugitive, landloper, loafer, prowler, rascal, rover, scamp, vagabond, wanderer), French (erratic, hobo, roamer, roaming, rover, roving, tramp, truant, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), Romanian (bum, gadabout, gypsy, hobo, landloper, mudlark, range, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), Swedish (runabout, vagabond).

Top     

Modern Usage: Vagabond

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This is Mrs. Dudley, the big vagabond next door. (The Long, Long Trailer; writing credit: Clinton Twiss; Albert Hackett)

Lyrics

These vagabond shoes, are longing to stray ("New York, New York"; performing artist: FRANK SINATRA)

Movie/TV Titles

Le Vagabond (1974)

The Vagabond King (1956)

Vagabond Loafers (1949)

The Gay Vagabond (1940)

Le Vagabond bien aimé (1936)

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

Top     

Commercial Usage: Vagabond

DomainTitle

Books

  • Capolan: Travels of a Vagabond Country Artbox (reference)

  • The Life of Courage: The notorious Thief, Whore and Vagabond (reference)

  • The Vagabond (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (reference)

  • Vagabond (reference)

  • Vagabond, Volume 1 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

Top     

Image Slideshow: Vagabond

Illustrations:
Vagabond

More images...

Computer Images:
Vagabond

More images...

Top     

Use in Literature: Vagabond

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

A vagabond, a mendicant, without means of existence, etc.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Vagabond

"Vagabond" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "Vagabond" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)92.59%2569,787
Noun (proper)7.41%2245,945
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Derived & Related Names: Vagabond

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "vagabond".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
NodN/ABiblical

Vagabond

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

Top     

Expression: Vagabond

Expressions using "vagabond": live as a vagabond vagabond life. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "vagabond": kleenex-vagabond.

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

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vagabond

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vagabond inn

169

vagabond

156

quest vagabond

78

vagabond hotel

34

vagabond plaza hotel

15

vagabond motel

13

vagabond inn san diego

13

vagabond inn sacramento

12

piper vagabond

12

vagabond quest walk through

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Vagabond

Language Translations for "vagabond"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vagabond (bum, fugitive, landloper, loafer, prowler, rascal, rover, scamp, wanderer), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagrant, wanderer, wandering). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متشرد (bum, rogue, tramp, vagrant), ‏تشرد (bum, fall through, vagrancy), ‏المتشرد (canter, hobo, rogue, straggler, tramp, truant, vagrant, wanderer, wastrel), ‏إنتقل من مكان لآخر. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скитнически (migratory, nomadic, roving, vagabondish, vagrant), скитник (bum, casual, derelict, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagrant, wanderer), скитам (bum, drift, hike, hobo, ramble, roam about, roll, rove, tramp), хаймана (botcher, lad, sad dog, scamp, scapegrace), чергарски (nomadic), шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, idle, loaf, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, mosey, saunter, screw around, swan around), номадски (nomad, nomadic), бродя (range, rove, stray, tramp, walk, wander), безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dangler, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, spiv, tramp, twiddler, wastrel), панта (hinge, hobo, knuckle, tramp). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

地痞, 流浪者 (rover, vagrant, wanderer). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vandrák (bum, hobo, tramp), tulák (beachcomber, dosser, drifter, gadabout, hobo, itinerant, landloper, landraker, prowler, rambler, Ranger, rogue, rover, stroller, tramp, vagrant, wanderer, wayfarer), povaleè (bum, bummer, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, lounger, slob), potulovat se (gad about, hover about, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, skulk, stroll, tramp), potulný (itinerant, rambling, strolling, vagrant, wandering), potloukat se (knock, loaf, slouch around), pobuda (bum, dosser, rogue, straggler, vagrant), nièema (blackguard, heel, miscreant, rogue, rotter, ruffian, scoundrel, villain). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zwerver, vagebond. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

vagulo. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ولگردی کردن (Hull, Loaf, Lout, Mooch, Tramp), ولگرد (Blackgurad, Hooligan, Loafer, Prowler, Rambler, Stray, Swinger, Tramp), خانه بدوش (Nomad, Tramp), دربدر (Gadabout, Outcast, Vagrant), بیکاره (Idler). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maankiertäjä (bum, tramp, vagrant), kulkuri (tramp, vagrant), kulkija (wanderer), irtolainen (layabout, vagrant). (various references)

   

French

  

chemineau (vagrant). (various references)

   

German

  

vagabundierend, vagabundenhaft, vagabunden-, vagabund (gentlemen of the road, roamer, rover), zigeuner (gipsies, gipsy, gipsyBrit, gypsies, gypsy, romany), unstet (changeable, choppy, dodgy, erratic, fickle, inconstant, migrant, restless, unsettled, unsteady, vagrant, vagrantly), umherziehend (gadding about, itinerant, strolling, vagrant, wandering), schweifend (rambling, wandering), landstreicher (bum, hobo, tramp, vagabonds, vagrant, vagrants, yegg), herumtreiber (good for nothing, loiterer, prowler), abschweifend (digressing, digressive, discursive, excursive, excursively, wandering). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περιπλανώμενοσ (astray, rambler, roamer, stray, vagrant, wanderer), αλήτησ (bum, hobo, hoodlum, lout, rapscallion, rascallion, scamp, tramp, vagrant). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משוטט (gadabout, globetrotter, hiker, prowler, rambler, rambling, stroller, vagrant, wanderer), תוע" (errant, stray, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), אורח פורח (hobo, tramp, wanderer), ו" (drifter, nomad, nomadic, tramp, wanderer), ע ו " (fugitive, maverick, migrant, nomad, rover, tramp, vagrant, wanderer). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vándorló (ambulatory, errant, floater, itinerant, migrant, migratory, rambler, roving, wandering), csavargó (beat, bum, corner-man, gadabout, hobo, hoodlum, jockey, knockabout, landloper, landlouper, layabout, loiterer, lowlife, outcast, prowler, ranger, roamer, rogue, rover, runabout, runagate, to go for a tramp, tramp, vagrant, wanderer). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

petualang (adventurer, gadabout, voyager, wanderer), pengembara (carpetbagger, errant, gadabout, nomad, ramble, vagrant, voyager, wanderer), mengembara (gad, rove, vagabondize, wander), gelandangan (bum, vagrant). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vagabondo - nomade - girovago, vagabondo (gadabout, hobo, Idler, loafer, rambler, rolling stone, rover, scouring, tramp, vagrant, wanderer, wandering). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

風来坊 (capricious person, hobo, wanderer), バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteria, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bassoon, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bounce, bound, bow side, bucket, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, bus, by-line, holidays, honey wagon, pail, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagina), 漂泊者 , 宿無し (homeless person, tramp). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

バガボンド , ひょうはくしゃ, ふうらいぼう (capricious person, hobo, wanderer), やどなし (homeless person, tramp). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

부랑자 (Outcast). (various references)

   

Manx

  

wagaantagh (ramble, rambling, stroll, stroller, vagrant), streel (drab, fancy woman, loiterer, lounger, scamp, spendthrift, stroller, vamp, vamp woman), shaghraneagh (muzzy, truant, vagrant), shaghrane (delusion, itinerant, tramp, vagrant), riblas (stroller, tramp), kercheen (base person, cringe of person; underling, cringe; underling, cullion, cur, cur person, down-and-out, henchman, rotter, servile person, wretch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agabondvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vagabundo (bum, cornerman, downcast, gadabout, gad-fly, hobo, landlord, landlubber, Lea, maverick, planetoid, prowler, rambling, Ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wandering, wastrel, Woodward). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vagabond (bum, gadabout, gypsy, hobo, landloper, mudlark, range, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, tramp, vagrant), hoinar (dilly dally, gadabout, rambler, rambling, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, tramp, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), haimana (gutter-snipe, larrikin, loafer, ragamuffin, Ranger, renegade, scapegrace, street arab, tramp, truant), golan (cad, good for nothing, hooligan, ragamuffin, ragged, rascal, ruffian, tramp, urchin, wretch), derbedeu (reprobate, rogue, scapegrace, scoundrel, tramp, truant, urchin), cioflingar (scamp, straggler, tramp). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бродяга (bum, derelict, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramp, tramper, vagrant), бездельник (bum, chair warmer, dangler, do nothing, do-naught, do-nothing, doodle, footer, fribble, good for nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, loon, lounger, ne'er do well, ne'erdoweel, rapscallion, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, skulker, sluggard, trifler, twiddler). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vagabund, skitnica (bum, drifter, hobo, landloper, landlouper, larrikin, loafer, runagate, sundowner, tramp, vagrant, wanderer), protuva (landloper, landlouper), baraba (raff). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vagante (bone-idle, hazy, lazy, strolling, vagrant), vagabundo (down and out, drifter, erring, gipsy, gypsy, outcast, piker, Ranger, rover, runagate, tramp, vagrant, wanderer), pasador (bar, barrette, bobby pin, brooch, catch, closing latch, cotter pin, dispatcher, dowel, dowel pin, facilitator, hasp, intransigent, joining pin, key, latch, lock, marlinespike, pin bolt, slide, slotted pin, smuggler, spike, stud, vagrant). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lösdrivare. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

serserilik yapmak (gad, gad about, vagabondize), serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, wild), derbeder (down and out, frumpish, roguish, tramp, untidy, vagrant), daldan dala konmak (fly off at a tangent, go off at a tangent), daldan dala konan (spasmodic), başıboş (adrift, footloose, idle, idled, rambling, roving, straggling, straggly, stray, strayed, vagrant), aylak (bum, bummer, dawdler, idle, Idler, layabout, loafer, loiterer, otiose, runabout, unemployed, vagrant), avare (dawdler, dosser, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, idled, rover, straggler, straggling, straggly, strayed, stroller, vagrant, wanderer, wandering, yob), amaçsız (aimless, at an end, objectless, pointless, purposeless, vacuous, wanton, without cause), çapkın (amorist, chaser, debauchee, dissolute, flirt, flirtatious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, lothario, profligate, rake, rakish, rascal, rip, rogue, roguish, roue, varlet, villain, wolf, womanizer). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ykmanda (tramp), sergezdan (bum), segezdan (wanderer). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

бродяга (abraham-man, bush-whacker, drummer, gadabout, hobo, loafer, needy, nomad, prowler, rambler, runabout, runagate, stroller, tourist, tramp, vagrant, waif), пройдисвіт (adventurer, bounder, cheat, nib, rogue, twerp), дармоїд (beat, cadger, freeloader, hanger-on, parasite). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lang thang (errant, rambling), lêu lổng (wild). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

crwydryn (tramp, vagrant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Ancestral Language Translations: Vagabond

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

vagari. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

vagabundus. (various references)

Old French900-1400

herlot, arlot. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Bible Trace: Vagabond

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 4, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOti erga thn ghn kai ou prosqhsei thn iscun authV dounai soi stenwn kai tremwn esh epi thV ghV
Latin405VulgateCum operatus fueris eam non dabit tibi fructus suos vagus et profugus eris super terram
Old English990West SaxonÞonne þu tilast ðin on eorðan, ne sylð heo ðe nane wæstmas; woriende ond flyma þu bist ofer eorþan."
Middle English1395WyclifWhanne thow worchist the erthe, it shal not yiue thee his fruytis; vagaunt and fer fugitif thow shalt be vpon the erthe alle the daies of thi lijf.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleFor when thou tyllest the grounde she shall heceforth not geve hyr power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon the erth.
Jacobean English1611King JamesWhen thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Victorian English1833WebsterWhen thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield to thee its strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Basic English1964OgdenNo longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

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

Top     

Matched Bible Translations: Vagabond

LanguageGenesis Chapter 4, Verse 12
BulgarianКогато работиш земята тя няма вече да ти дава силата си; бежанец и скитник ще бъдеш на земята.
CebuanoSa diha nga magauma ikaw sa yuta, dili na kini magahatag kanimo sa iyang kusog; magalaaglaag ug magadumuloong ikaw sa yuta.
Chinese 種 地 、 地 不 再 給 效 力 . 必 流 離 飄 蕩 在 地 上 。
CroatianObraðivat æeš zemlju, ali ti više neæe davati svoga roda. Vjeèni æeš skitalica na zemlji biti!"
DanishNår du dyrker Agerjorden, skal den ikke mere skænke dig sin Kraft du skal flakke hjemløs om på Jorden!"
DutchAls gij den aardbodem bouwen zult, hij zal u zijn vermogen niet meer geven; gij zult zwervende en dolende zijn op aarde.
FinnishKun maata viljelet, ei se ole enää sinulle satoansa antava; kulkija ja pakolainen pitää sinun oleman maan päällä."
FrenchQuand tu cultiveras le sol, il ne te donnera plus sa richesse. Tu seras errant et vagabond sur la terre.
GermanWenn du den Acker bauen wirst, soll er dir hinfort sein Vermögen nicht geben. Unstet und flüchtig sollst du sein auf Erden.
Haitian CreoleLè w'a travay latè, li p'ap ba ou sa l' te dwe ba ou. W'ap tounen yon vakabon k'ap plede mache toupatou sou latè san rete.
HungarianMikor a földet míveled, ne adja az többé néked az õ termõ erejét, bujdosó és vándorló légy a földön.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariJika engkau bercocok tanam, tanah tidak akan menghasilkan apa-apa; engkau akan menjadi pengembara yang tidak punya tempat tinggal di bumi."
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaApabila engkau mengusahakan tanah ini kelak, niscaya tiada akan diberinya hasilnya kepadamu; bahwa engkau akan mengembara dan sesat di atas bumi.
ItalianQuando lavorerai il suolo, esso non ti dar più i suoi prodotti: ramingo e fuggiasco sarai sulla terra».
Korean네 가 밭 갈 아 도 땅 이 다 시 " 그 효 을 네 게 주 지 아 니 것 이 " 너 " 땅 에 서 " 하 며 리 하 " 자 가 되 리 라
MaoriKa ngaki koe i te oneone, e kore e tukua tona kaha a muri ake nei ki a koe; ka waiho koe hei tangata haereere noa, hei manene i runga i te whenua.
Modern Greekοταν εργαζησαι την γην, δεν θελει εις το εξης σοι δωσει τον καρπον αυτης· πλανητης και φυγας θελεις εισθαι επι της γης.
NorwegianNår du dyrker jorden, skal den ikke mere gi dig sin grøde; omflakkende og hjemløs skal du være på jorden.
PortugueseQuando lavrares a terra, não te dará mais a sua força; fugitivo e vagabundo serás na terra.   
RumanianCknd vei lucra pqmkntul, sq nu-yi mai dea bogqyia lui. Pribeag wi fugar sq fii pe pqmknt.``
RussianЛПЗ"Б ФЩ 'Х"ЕЫШ ЧПЪ"ЕМЩЧБФШ ЪЕНМА, ПОБ ОЕ УФБОЕФ 'ПМЕЕ "БЧБФШ УЙМЩ УЧПЕК "МС ФЕ'С; ФЩ 'Х"ЕЫШ ЙЪЗОБООЙЛПН Й УЛЙФБМШ"ЕН ОБ ЪЕНМЕ.
SpanishCuando trabajes la tierra, ella no te volverá a dar su fuerza. Y serás errante y fugitivo en la tierra.
SwedishNär du brukar jorden, skall den icke mer giva dig sin gröda. Ostadig och flyktig skall du bliva på jorden."
Thaiเมื่อเจ้าทำไร่ไถนา มันจะไม่เกิ"ผลแก่เจ้าเหมือนเ"ิม เจ้าจะต้องพเนจรร่อนเร่ไปมาในโลก"
UkrainianКоли будеш ти порати землю, вона більше не дасть тобі сили сво"ї. Мандрівником та заволокою будеш ти на землі.

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

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Vagabond

Derivations

Words beginning with "vagabond": vagabondage, vagabondages, vagabonded, vagabonding, vagabondish, vagabondism, vagabondisms, vagabonds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vagabond" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farabund, Naggarond, vagabobd, vagabon, vegabond. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: Vagabond

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-n-o-v"

-2 letters: bandog, dagoba.

-3 letters: bogan, donga, goban, gonad, vanda.

-4 letters: agon, anga, anoa, band, bang, bond, bong, dago, dang, dona, dong, goad, nada, nova, vang.

-5 letters: aba, abo, ado, aga, ago, ana, and, ava, avo, baa, bad, bag, ban, boa, bod, bog, dab, dag, dog, don, gab, gad, gan, goa, gob, god, nab, nag, nob, nod, nog, ova, van.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-g-n-o-v"
 

+1 letter: vagabonds.

 

+2 letters: vagabonded.

 

+3 letters: vagabondage, vagabonding, vagabondish, vagabondism.

 

+4 letters: vagabondages, vagabondisms.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Vagabond


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 67 61 62 6F 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .-    --.    .-    -...    ---    -.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01100111 01100001 01100010 01101111 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#103 &#97 &#98 &#111 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0067 0061 0062 006F 006E 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5667736768818070

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Derived from
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Bible Trace
15. Derivations
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.