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[ˈnəʊmad], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home
(e.g: the withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the Sahara to descend into the Nile valley)
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Origin
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late 16th century: from French nomade, via Latin from Greek nomas, nomad- ‘roaming in search of pasture’, from the base of nemein ‘to pasture’
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