Definitions for vagrants

vagrants va·grant

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

Vagrants is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 219 anagrams from letters in vagrants (aagnrstv).

Definitions for vagrants

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 vagrants

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 vagrants

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for vagrants
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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