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renegade
English
Etymology
From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin reneg?tus, perfect participle of reneg? (“I deny”). See also renege.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /???n???e?d/
- (UK) IPA(key): /???n???e?d/
Noun
renegade (plural renegades)
- An outlaw or rebel.
- A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
Coordinate terms
- (disloyal person): apostate, defector, heretic, turncoat
Related terms
Translations
Verb
renegade (third-person singular simple present renegades, present participle renegading, simple past and past participle renegaded)
- (dated) To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
- 1859, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (volume 3, page 740)
- The recent arrangement, obtained by Lord Stratford, as to the case of a Christian renegading to Mohammedanism […]
- 1859, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (volume 3, page 740)
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “renegade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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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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