vagrant

suomi-englanti sanakirja

vagrant englannista suomeksi

  1. kuljeksiva, kiertelevä, harhaileva

  2. kiertolainen

  1. kulkuri

  2. irtolainen, kulkuri, mierolainen

  3. vierailija

  4. harhaileva, vaeltava, vaelteleva

  5. kulkuri-">kulkuri-, irtolais-">irtolais-

  6. harhaileva

vagrant englanniksi

  1. A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

  2. (synonyms)

  3. A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

  4. (ux)

  5. (quote-book)|edition=10th|location=London|publisher=(...) Nutt (printer)|Elizabeth and Richard Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for J. Walthoe,(nb...)|year=1729|page=708|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpAGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA708|oclc=1119567260|passage=If it appear to the Juſtice by the confeſſion of the Vagrant, or by the Oath of one Witneſs, that he had no lawful Settlement ſince his Birth, and that he hath committed Acts of Vagrancy, or hath been a common Beggar, or Vagrant, for two Years laſt paſt, ... then inſtead of puniſhing him, the Juſtice, or Juſtices, may bind him Apprentice for ſeven Years to the Perſon who apprehends him, or to any other Perſon who will receive him, and employ him in ''Great Britain'', or in any of his Majeſty's Plantations.

  6. (RQ:Cowper Task)

  7. (quote-book)|year=1839|section=§ 19|page=21|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1ADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA21|oclc=181680410|passage=The most prominent body of delinquents in the rural districts are vagrants, and these vagrants appear to consist of two classes: first, the habitual depradators, house-breakers, horse-stealers, and common thieves; secondly, of vagrants, properly so called, who seek alms as mendicants.

  8. (quote-book) J. Taylor,(nb...)|year=1842|page=4|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8N3m5GiJX5AC&pg=PA4|oclc=81464314|passage=Among vagrants are to be found thieves of every description, as well as a numerous host of the rankest impostors. ... A great number amongst these daring impostors have been brought up vagrants from their infancy, and such as are bred up to it are naturally the most clever in acts of thieving, or in imposing upon the public.

  9. (taxlink), a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family (taxfmt).

  10. An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

  11. Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.

  12. (quote-book) Henry Hills and John Field,(nb...)|date=(J2G)|year_published=1657|page=2|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uik-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2|oclc=1049108127|passage=All and every idle, looſe and diſſolute perſon and perſons, which from and after the firſt day of ''July'', One thouſand ſix hundred fifty ſeven, ſhall be found and taken within the Commonwealth of ''England'', vagrant and wandring from his or their uſual place of living or abode, and ſhall not have ſuch good and ſufficient cauſe or buſineſs for ſuch his or their travelling or wandring, ... ſhall be proceeded againſt and puniſhed as Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggers within the ſaid Statute, ...

  13. Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.

  14. Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

  15. (RQ:Prior Poetical Works)

  16. (RQ:Macaulay Johnson)

  17. (quote-song)