Definitions for vagrant

vagrant va·grant

Spelling: [vey-gruh nt]
IPA: /ˈveɪ grənt/

Vagrant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in vagrant (aagnrtv).

Definitions for vagrant

noun

  1. a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
  2. Law. an idle person without visible means of support, as a tramp or beggar.
  3. a person who wanders from place to place; wanderer; rover.
  4. wandering idly without a permanent home or employment; living in vagabondage:
  5. of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagrant:

adjective

  1. wandering or roaming from place to place; nomadic.
  2. (of plants) straggling in growth.
  3. not fixed or settled, especially in course; moving hither and thither:

Origin of vagrant

1400-50; late Middle English vagaraunt, apparently present participle of Anglo-French *vagrer, perhaps Middle English *vagren, blend of vagen (Latin vagārī to wander) and *walcren (> Old F

Examples for vagrant

At a time when the question of "What is to be done with our vagrant children?"

He took to "vagrant courses," in which the muse forbears to follow him.

Their vagrant curiosity was aroused, but not yet to the point of investigation.

The vagrant, shiftless freedman was a social problem as well as economic.

Is it, do you think chronic unemployment with a vagrant tendency?

In an interview, Liang said, “Air should be the most valueless commodity, free to breathe for any vagrant or beggar.”

Gabriel Faa, besides being a gipsy, was a vagrant and a deserter.

He used it as a whip with which to scourge any vagrant hopes that dared creep into his heart.

But I did not come here to-night to teach manners to vagrant Yankees.

This old tower is a complete brooding-place for vagrant birds.

Word Value for vagrant
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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