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escapee
English
Alternative forms
- escapée
Etymology
escape +? -ee
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?s'k?-p?, IPA(key): /?esk?pi?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Noun
escapee (plural escapees)
- Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
- Someone who has escaped.
- (botany) A plant that has escaped from cultivation.
Synonyms
- (someone who has escaped): escaper
Related terms
- escape
Translations
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vagrant
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?ve????nt/
- Hyphenation: va?grant
Etymology 1
From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) [and other forms] and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”) [and other forms], perhaps influenced by Latin vag?r?, the present active infinitive of vagor (“to ramble, stroll about; to roam, rove, wander”). Old French walcrant is the present participle of vagrer, wacrer, walcrer (“to wander, wander about as a vagabond”) [and other forms], from Frankish *walkr?n (“to wander about”), the frequentative form of *walk?n (“to walk; to wander; to stomp, trample; to full (make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing)”), from Proto-Germanic *walk?n? (“to roll about, wallow; to full”), *walkan? (“to turn, wind; to toss; to roll, roll about; to wend; to walk; to wander; to trample; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg-, *walk-, *welg?-, *welk-, *wolg- (“to turn, twist; to move”), ultimately from *welH- (“to turn; to wind”).
The English word is cognate with Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Middle Dutch walken (“to knead; to full”), Old English wealcan (“to roll”), ?ewealcan (“to go; to walk about”), Old High German walchan, walkan (“to move up and down; to press together; to full; to walk; to wander”), Old Norse valka (“to wander”). See further at walk.
Noun
vagrant (plural vagrants)
- (dated) A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
- Synonyms: itinerant, rover; see also Thesaurus:wanderer
- (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
- Synonyms: drifter, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond
- Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
- (biology, especially ornithology) An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
Derived terms
Related terms
- vagary
- vagation
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English vagraunt, vagaraunt (“having no proper employment; having a tendency to go astray or wander; wayward”), from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagrant”) and Old French walcrant, waucrant (“roaming, wandering”); see further at etymology 1.
Adjective
vagrant (comparative more vagrant, superlative most vagrant)
- Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
- Synonyms: itinerant, nomadic, peripatetic, vagabond, (obsolete) vagrom, vague
- Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
- (figuratively) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.
- Synonyms: inconstant, straggling, straying, vagabond, (obsolete) vagrom, vague, wayward
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References
Further reading
- vagrancy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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