nomadic
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4.9
- adjective
- /noʊˈmædɪk/
- For some time, the two sisters lived a nomadic life because they often had to move.
- nomadic tribes
- nomadic lifestyle
- nomadic people
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Watch on YouTubeSo yes, the simplest human societies, nomadic hunter gatherers, do fight.
- So yes, the simplest human societies, nomadic hunter gatherers, do fight.
- So it's like a largely nomadic culture.
- What's your perspective on exercise running and what did you learn when you studied nomadic tribes about the importance of exercise?
- I asked some of the old song, you know, which do you prefer this new life or the old ways when you were nomadic?
- They're just the latest confederacy in an area that saw nomadic confederacies going back to the beginning of recorded history.
- The days of the tents in Arabia or of quasi nomadic followers of Muhammad are definitively over with the defeat of Ali.
- Kurdish nomadic tribes and irregular armed forces were involved in the murdering of the Armenians by allowing them to plunder their property.
- It would destroy Rat Perry and forests, which were the basis for the survival of nomadic groups, the Samburu and the Tokana in this area.
- How common is that as a nomadic strategy?
- They are used as dog dogs by the locals living in sort of their nomadic way of life.
Examples
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Only a few nomadic tribes still use it.
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The people who built the shrine were nomadic, so no houses have been found nearby.
Academic text (2008) -
But you tell the story of this nomadic woman, though, right?
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How common is that as a nomadic strategy?
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So it's like a largely nomadic culture.
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My parents' generation was a generation who was completely nomadic.
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Nomadic tribes in Morocco are my specialty.
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To the south and east were nomadic tribes, the basis of whose economy was herding livestock.
Academic text (1996) -
Early in the 18th century, several nomadic tribes founded settlements in the Arabian Peninsula.
Academic text (1991) -
The family lived a nomadic lifestyle, traveling between different regions to find work and resources.
Synonyms
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3.9
Often traveling or changing what you do
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3.7
Moving regularly from place to place, often for seasonal work
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4.1
Moving from place to place without a fixed home
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3.9
Moving from place to place rather than living in one place
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7.8
Living from place to place without a fixed home
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5.0
People who move to different places to find work at certain times of the year
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9.9
Traveling from place to place as part of work or life
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Etymology
The word nomadic comes from the Greek root nomad- and nomos, where nomos means 'pasture' or 'grazing land'. That's why a nomad moved from place to place to find new pastures, and being nomadic means living by moving instead of staying in one home.