different between roving vs vagabond

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?v??/

Adjective

roving (comparative more roving, superlative most roving)

1. wandering freely.

   His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.

   • 1989, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Visible Breath, Dark Horse Books

     It could complicate things for our little household. Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.

Synonyms

• wandering

Derived terms

• roving eye
• roving reporter
• roving editor

Translations

Verb

roving

1. present participle of rove

Noun

roving (countable and uncountable, plural rovings)

1. A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn.
2. The process of giving the first twist to yarn.

Anagrams

• voring

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)