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gipsy
English
Noun
gipsy (plural gipsies)
- Alternative spelling of gypsy
Derived terms
- Gipsy Hill
Verb
gipsy (third-person singular simple present gipsies, present participle gipsying, simple past and past participle gipsied)
- Alternative spelling of gypsy
gipsy From the web:
nomad
English
Etymology
From Middle French nomade, from Latin nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n??mæd/
- (US) IPA(key): /?no?mæd/
Noun
nomad (plural nomads)
- (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
- 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay as A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:
- The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...
- 2013 August, Henry Petroski, "Geothermal Energy" in American Scientist, Vol. 101, No. 4:
- Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay as A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:
- (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
- (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
- (figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.
Synonyms
- (wanderer): See Thesaurus:vagabond
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)
- Synonym of nomadic.
References
- "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
- Damon, Doman, Domna, Mando, mad on, mad-on, mando, monad
Romanian
Etymology
From French nomade. Compare Aromanian numad.
Noun
nomad m (plural nomazi)
- nomad
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?ma?d/
- Hyphenation: no?mad
Noun
nòm?d m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- nomad
Declension
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