nomad
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈnoʊmæd/
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nómada
- The nomad moved across the desert in search of water and grazing land for his herds.
- pastoral nomads
- desert nomads
- Mongolian nomads
Just go and be a nomad and get to know things and see things.
- Just go and be a nomad and get to know things and see things.
- Being quite, you know, quite concerned about not having, you know, lots of friends or lots of close friends and being this kind of nomad when it came to a friendship group.
- Just been kind of chaotic around here because I'm getting ready to head out on the next leg of this whole nomad thing.
- I'm more using the summer to be like a nomad, like traveling pretty much anywhere that you can think of, just living very freely.
- So there are active nomads and pastoralists who travel from the Horn of Africa all the way up to Kenya to Djibouti.
- These were the Zen Sunni nomads, a far travelling people long in search of a home.
- So maybe you can enlighten the the listenership on what a digital nomad is.
- The Grand Prince of Muscovy ends up uniting all the very young peoples and then is able to take the fight to the steppe nomads and drive out the Golden Horde.
- His great greatest uncle was a pioneer nomad.
Examples
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Maybe nomads will come to water their flocks.
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In a country of nomads, he had remained in one spot.
Fiction book (1995) -
Just go and be a nomad and get to know things and see things.
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How much gold can a nomad carry?
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Everyone here knows what it's like to be a nomad.
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Most people here have given up any attempts at settled life and survive as wandering nomads on the open step.
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He was the son of Yesugei, leader of a small nomad tribe.
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Along the highways of Gujarat, we encountered nomads, at times in lines that extended to the horizon.
Academic text (2001) -
Approximately 200 Sahrawi nomads roam the Saharan sands outside the wall.
Academic text (1991) -
Some Tuareg nomads in Niger, Algeria, and Libya still use it today.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
46
5.9
A person who moves from place to place and has no permanent home or steady job
25
7.7
A person who has no home and moves from place to place, often begging
23
3.9
A person who travels without a fixed home or purpose
14
3.7
Moving regularly from place to place, often for seasonal work
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7.0
A person who moves from place to place and has no fixed home
2
7.6
A person who travels on foot from place to place
1
5.1
A person who moves from place to place without staying long
1
8.0
A person who goes from place to place to find work
Living from place to place without a fixed home
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Etymology
The word nomad comes from the Greek nomas, from the verb nemein meaning 'to pasture' or 'to graze', which is like the English word 'pasture'. It originally named people who moved with their animals to find food, so today a nomad is someone who moves from place to place instead of living in one fixed home.