different between extravagant vs vagabond

English

Etymology

From Old French and French extravagant, from Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagari (“to wander, stray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?æv???nt/

Adjective

extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)

1. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
2. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive

   • There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

3. Exorbitant.
4. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bancroft to this entry?)

Related terms

• vagabond
• extravagance
• extravagation

Translations

Further reading

• extravagant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• extravagant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

Medieval Latin extravagans

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ks.t??.v???ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ks.t??.b???an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /eks.t?a.va??ant/

Adjective

extravagant (feminine extravaganta, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)

1. extravagant

Further reading

• “extravagant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “extravagant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “extravagant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Medieval Latin extravagans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.st?a.va.???/

Adjective

extravagant (feminine singular extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)

1. extravagant

Derived terms

• extravagamment

Related terms

• extravagance

Further reading

• “extravagant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From French extravagant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)

1. extravagant

Declension

Related terms

• Extravaganz

Further reading

• “extravagant” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French extravagant.

Adjective

extravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagant?, masculine plural extravagan?i, feminine and neuter plural extravagante)

1. extravagant

Declension

English

Etymology

From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vag?bundus, from Latin vagari (“wander”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) enPR: v?g'?-b?nd, IPA^(key): /?væ?.?.b?nd/

Noun

vagabond (plural vagabonds)

1. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
3. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.

   Synonyms: vagrant, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond

Related terms

• extravagant
• vague

Translations

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

1. To roam, as a vagabond

Translations

Adjective

vagabond (not comparable)

1. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
   • 1959, Jack London, The Star Rover

     Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vag?bundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.?a.b??/

Adjective

vagabond (feminine singular vagabonde, masculine plural vagabonds, feminine plural vagabondes)

1. vagabonding

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonds, feminine vagabonde)

1. vagabond

Derived terms

Further reading

• “vagabond” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• vagabund

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?a?bu?d/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabond)

1. vagabond

Related terms

• vagabondé

Romanian

Etymology

From French vagabond.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.?a?bond/

Noun

vagabond m (plural vagabonzi)

1. tramp (a homeless person)