Meaning & use
vagrant
A person who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or steady employment.
See it in a sentence
The old law allowed police to arrest a vagrant simply for sleeping in the park.
She left a comfortable job to live as a vagrant, drifting between cities for a year.
A note on using this word
Can carry a legal or judgmental tone; homeless is now the more neutral, common term.
Words with a similar meaning
driftervagabond
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Another way to use it
2. adjective
Wandering from place to place; having no fixed home.
The vagrant cat had no collar and no obvious owner.
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