• (Canada, British) enPR: văg'ə-bŏnd, IPA: /ˈvæɡ.ə.bɒnd/

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
2. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 4:12 ↗:

     A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

• See Thesaurus:vagabond

• extravagant
• vague

• French: vagabond, vagabonde
• German: Landstreicher, Landstreicherin
• Portuguese: vagabundo
• Russian: стра́нник
• Spanish: vagabundo

• French: vagabond, vagabonde
• German: Landstreicher, Landstreicherin
• Portuguese: andarilho
• Russian: бродя́га
• Spanish: vagabundo

vagabond (vagabonds, present participle vagabonding; past and past participle vagabonded)

1. To roam, as a vagabond

• German: vagabundieren
• Russian: скитаться

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.

   • 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover

     Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.