vagabonds
Rootless traveling people
Vagabonds are people who wander from place to place without a fixed home or regular work.
The word carries romantic connotations of freedom and adventure, but historically it described those on society's margins—drifters, tramps, or itinerants viewed with suspicion: Medieval laws punished vagabonds as potential criminals.
As a verb, to vagabond is to live or travel as one: He vagabonded across Europe for a year.
Traveler, especially walking
- roverDrifter or space explorer
- ramblerLeisurely rural hiker
- itinerantMoving for work
- globetrotterFrequent international voyager
traveler · journeyer · footloose · backpacker · nomad · drifter · voyager · migrant
Artistic nonconformist type
- free spiritUninhibited, unconventional person
- adventurerOne pursuing exciting exploits
- open roadUnobstructed route ahead
- KerouacBeat Generation novelist
troubadour · minstrel · starving artist · counterculture · unconventional · carefree · unbound · romantic
Itinerant without fixed address
- trampWandering homeless person
- bumIdle vagrant
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- derelictAbandoned or neglectful
homeless · displaced · runaway · straggler · loafer · gadabout · panhandler · squatter
Absence of unjust constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- unfetteredFree from restriction
- unrestrainedNot held back
- unboundNot tied down
liberation · free-spirited · unconstrained · unshackled · escape · nonconformity · untethered · independent
Rejected, shunned person
- exileBanishment from homeland
- rejectDismiss as unsuitable
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
- banishedForced to leave permanently
misfit · alienated · disowned · fugitive · castaway · undesirable · expatriate · refugee
wayfarer
Traveler, especially walking
globetrotter · traveler · journeyer · footloose · backpacker · nomad · drifter · voyager · migrant · roamer
bohemian
Artistic nonconformist type
- free spiritUninhibited, unconventional person
- adventurerOne pursuing exciting exploits
- open roadUnobstructed route ahead
Kerouac · troubadour · minstrel · starving artist · counterculture · unconventional · carefree · unbound · romantic · literary
hobo
Itinerant without fixed address
derelict · homeless · displaced · runaway · straggler · loafer · gadabout · panhandler · squatter · bindle
liberty
Absence of unjust constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- unfetteredFree from restriction
- unrestrainedNot held back
unbound · liberation · free-spirited · unconstrained · unshackled · escape · nonconformity · untethered · independent · self-reliant
pariah
Rejected, shunned person
- exileBanishment from homeland
- rejectDismiss as unsuitable
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
banished · misfit · alienated · disowned · fugitive · castaway · undesirable · expatriate · refugee · black sheep
Bedouins
Nomadic Arab desert peoples
- TuaregSaharan Berber ethnic group
- pastoralistsPeople raising grazing animals
- herdersLivestock guardians and guides
caravan · yurts · ger · Mongols · migration · seasonal · Romani · reindeer herders · Sami · tent
- outsidersoutcast, outsider, outcasts, pariah, misfit
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
- nomadic lifenomads, yurt, wanderers, tent, Bedouins
- nomadsnomad, nomadism, Bedouin, roaming, Roma
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
vagabondssettlers
Those who establish homes
residents · inhabitants · homeowners · householders · homebodies
vagabondscitizens
Members of a nation
bourgeoisie · pillars of the community · gentry · taxpayers · householders
vagabondsworkers
People doing jobs
employees · professionals · breadwinners · wage earners · careerists
- vagabond lifeHomeless wandering existence