vagrant

FREQ #27506

n. 流浪汉, 漂泊者, 无赖 a. 漂泊的, 流浪的, 游荡的

发音

US /ˈveɪɡɹənt/
UK /ˈveɪɡɹənt/

词形变化

vagrants 复数 vagrants more vagrant 比较级 most vagrant 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

    流浪汉

    游民

    过时
  2. 2.

    A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

    江湖

    浪人

    流丐

    流浪汉

    游民

    无业游民

    Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.

  3. 3.

    Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

    彩蛱蝶属

  4. 4.

    An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

    迷鸟

    生物 动物学
adj.
  1. 1.

    Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.

    a vagrant beggar

  2. 2.

    Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.

  3. 3.

    Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

    比喻

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

drifter vagabond floater clochard

上位词 5

rover wanderer bird of passage have-not roamer

下位词 5

bum tramp hobo beachcomber sundowner
形容词

同义词 4

floating drifting vagabond aimless

近义相关 1

unsettled

词源

From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”) [and other forms], perhaps influenced by Latin vagārī, the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, stroll about; to roam, rove, wander”). Old French walcrant is the present participle of vagrer, wacrer, walcrer (“to wander, wander about as a vagabond”) [and other forms], from Frankish *walkrōn (“to wander about”), the frequentative form of *walkōn (“to walk; to wander; to stomp, trample; to full (make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing)”), from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about, wallow; to full”), *walkaną (“to turn, wind; to toss; to roll, roll about; to wend; to walk; to wander; to trample; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg-, *walk-, *welgʰ-, *welk-, *wolg- (“to turn, twist; to move”), ultimately from *welH- (“to turn; to wind”). The English word is cognate with Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Middle Dutch walken (“to knead; to full”), Old English wealcan (“to roll”), ġewealcan (“to go; to walk about”), Old High German walchan, walkan (“to move up and down; to press together; to full; to walk; to wander”), Old Norse valka (“to wander”). See further at walk.

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