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- pronunciation:
- no
maed
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a member of a group or tribe that has no permanent home and moves from place to place, often in search of pasture for the group's livestock.
The Bedouin people are nomads who live in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, and North Africa.- similar words:
- Bedouin, Bohemian, Gypsy, Romany, wanderer
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| definition 2: |
a person or animal that wanders from place to place without a fixed home.
He was living in Los Angeles when I heard from him a month ago. But he's such a nomad that he could be living anywhere now.- synonyms:
- roamer, vagabond, wanderer
- similar words:
- itinerant, migrant, rambler, rover, tramp, traveler, vagrant
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| related words: |
transient |
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| derivation: |
nomadism (n.) |
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