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vagabonding

vagabonding

1 8.1
A lifestyle of traveling freely without a fixed home
  • noun
  • /ˈvæɡəˌbɑndɪŋ/
: vagabundeo
  • And most importantly, he picked up a thing or two about solo travel on a dime along the way and shared those lessons with the rest of us in what many consider to be the Bible of independent travel, his book Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel.

Examples

  • After leaving his job, he embraced vagabonding and traveled through several countries for two years.

  • There's already a lot written out there in this area: quitting your job, making money online, starting a business, vagabonding around the world, etc.

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  • Vagabonding, How to Be Invisible, and The Four-Hour Workweek.

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  • Finding a reasonable balance in the improvised, eccentric world of vagabonding seems to be quite the task, though I find it intellectually stimulating to at least try.

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  • There’s no shortage of websites and resources on NGOs, internet startups, marketing, expatriation, backpacking, vagabonding, etc.

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  • Of, relating to, or characteristic of a wanderer; nomadic. 2. Aimless; drifting. 3. Irregular in course or behavior; unpredictable. intr.v. vagabonded, vagabonding, vagabonds.

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  • Her love for vagabonding allowed her to experience diverse cultures while living in different cities.

  • Many people dream of vagabonding through Europe with no fixed itinerary and plenty of time to explore.

Synonyms

roving
vsvagabonding
23 4.1

Moving from place to place without a fixed home

is more a lasting free lifestyle of extended wandering rather than transient movement
wandering
vsvagabonding
10 3.4

Traveling from place to place without a fixed place to go

is a sustained way of living freely and traveling long term rather than short trips
roaming freely
vsvagabonding
4 3.7

To move around without fences or other limits

is a chosen long term way of life rather than simple unrestricted movement
journeying
vsvagabonding
1 2.8

Moving from one place to another, often over a long distance

is a lasting way of life of free travel rather than a single planned trip
peregrination
vsvagabonding
  • Literature
1 9.9

A long trip visiting many different places

is lived as an open free lifestyle not mainly planned long journeys
nomadism
vsvagabonding
1 7.9

A way of life where people move seasonally to find food or grazing land

is a free travel lifestyle for personal choice rather than survival or resource needs
nomad lifestyle
vsvagabonding
1 5.8

Living by traveling and not staying long in one place

focuses on freely choosing prolonged wandering as a lifestyle rather than neutral movement
vagabondage
vsvagabonding
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Moving from place to place without a home or clear purpose

is lived as a free long term travel way of life rather than aimless
wayfaring
vsvagabonding
1 8.4

Traveling on foot between different places

is a prolonged living on the move and not limited to foot travel

How Nomadic

nomadism
1 7.9
vagabonding
1 8.1
backpacking
11 3.0
tourism
134 1.3

Surface Forms

vagabonding singular
vagabondings plural

Morphology

vagabonding = vagabond (transparent) = vagabond + ing

The meaning is directly derived from the verb 'vagabond' with the productive English suffix '-ing' denoting the action or practice of wandering.

Etymology

Vagabonding comes from the old word vagabond, which goes back to the Latin vagari meaning 'to wander'. So vagabonding means living a wandering life, moving from place to place without a fixed home.