nomad

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: no=mad

CIDE DICTIONARY

nomad, n. [L. nomas, -adis, Gr. , , pasturing, roaming without fixed home, fr. a pasture, allotted abode, fr. to distribute, allot, drive to pasture; prob. akin to AS. niman to take, and E. nimble: cf. F. nomade. Cf. Astronomy, Economy, Nimble, Nemesis, Numb, Number.].

 One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.  [1913 Webster]

nomad, a. 

 Roving; nomadic.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nomad, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a member of a tribe roaming from place to place for pasture.
2 a wanderer.
--adj.
1 living as a nomad.
2 wandering.

Derivative

nomadic adj. nomadically adv. nomadism n. nomadize v.intr. (also -ise).

Etymology

F nomade f. L nomas nomad- f. Gk nomas -ados f. nemo to pasture

THESAURUS

nomad

Arab, Bedouin, Bohemian, Romany, Zigeuner, circumforaneous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy, gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, tzigane, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, zingaro

ROGET THESAURUS

nomad

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.