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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding, twisting |
| Synonyms: | anfractuous, circuitous, coiling, convoluted, crooked, curved, curvy, deviative, devious, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, snaky, supple, tortuous, twisting and turning, undulating, vagrant |
| Antonyms: | straight, untwisted, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | street person |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homeless person |
| Synonyms: | bag lady, bag person, beggar, bum, derelict, displaced person, down-and-out, drifter, hobo, homeless person, shopping-bag lady, shopping-bag person, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wino |
| Main Entry: | tramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is poor, desperate |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bum, derelict, down-and-out, drifter, floater, hitchhiker, hobo, homeless person, loafer, outcast, panhandler, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer |
| Notes: | a hobo is a migratory worker who likes to travel, a tramp travels without working, and a bum does not travel or work |
| Main Entry: | traveler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who journeys |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, barnstormer, bum*, commuter, displaced person, drifter, excursionist, expeditionist, explorer, floater, gadabout, globetrotter, gypsy, haj, hiker, hobo, itinerant, jet-setter, journeyer, junketer, migrant, navigator, nomad, passenger, peddler, pilgrim, rambler, roamer, rover, sailor, seafarer, sightseer, tourist, tramp, transmigrant, trekker, tripper, trouper, truant, vagabond, vagrant, voyager, wanderer, wayfarer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wanderer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who travels aimlessly |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, beachcomber, bum, drifter, explorer, floater, gad, gadabout, gallivanter, globe-trotter, gypsy, itinerant, meanderer, nomad, pilgrim, rambler, ranger, roamer, rolling stone, rover, straggler, stray, stroller, traveler, vagabond, vagrant, voyager |
| Main Entry: | wandering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itinerant |
| Synonyms: | deviating, devious, digressive, drifting, errant, erratic, excursive, landloping, meandering, migrant, migratory, nomadic, planetary, rambling, roaming, roving, straying, traveling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wayfaring |
| Main Entry: | wayfarer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traveler |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, barnstormer, bum*, drifter, excursionist, explorer, gadabout, globe-trotter, gypsy, hiker, hitchhiker, hobo, itinerant, journeyer, nomad, peddler, pilgrim, rambler, roamer, rover, trekker, vagabond, vagrant, walker, wanderer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wayfaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | traveling |
| Synonyms: | drifting, gadabout, globe-trotting, itinerant, itinerate, jet-setting, journeying, nomadic, perambulant, perambulatory, peripatetic, rambling, roving, rubbernecking, vagabond, vagrant, voyaging, walking, wandering |
| Antonyms: | unmoving |
| Main Entry: | roaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving around |
| Synonyms: | ambulatory, discursive, itinerant, meandering, migratory, nomadic, perambulatory, peripatetic, prodigal, roving, vagarious, vagrant, wandering |
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