Other forms: vagabonds
A vagabond is a wanderer with no home and no settled work. A ragged vagabond, wander like a vagabond, vagabonds on the road.
It was a legal category before it was a romantic one: English vagrancy laws punished people for having no fixed abode, and being a vagabond was itself an offence for centuries. In modern use the word is almost affectionate.
1nounvagabondA wanderer with no home and no settled work.
“He spent his youth as a vagabond, sleeping in barns and doing odd jobs.”
vagabond is a wanderer.
Latin vagabundus comes from vagari, to wander, from vagus, roaming. Vague is a relative.
Latin
vagābundus
Old French
vagabond
English, today
vagabond
From Old French vagabond, from Latin vagābundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”). Compare moribund. From Old French vagabond.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA