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no·mad

(nō′măd′)

1. A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

2. A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.

[French nomade, from Latin nomas, nomad-, from Greek nomas, wandering in search of pasture; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

no·mad′ic adj.

no·mad′i·cal·ly adv.

no′mad′ism n.

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nomad

(ˈnəʊmæd)

1. (Anthropology & Ethnology) a member of a people or tribe who move from place to place to find pasture and food

2. a person who continually moves from place to place; wanderer

[C16: via French from Latin nomas wandering shepherd, from Greek; related to nemein to feed, pasture]

ˈnomadism n

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no•mad

(ˈnoʊ mæd)

n.

1. a member of a people that has no permanent abode but moves from place to place along a traditional circuit in search of pasturage or food.

2. any wanderer; itinerant.

adj.

3. nomadic.

[1580–90; < Latin nomas (s. nomad-) < Greek nomás pasturing flocks (nomádes pastoral tribes)]

no′mad•ism, n.

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nomad - a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons

Bedouin, Beduin - a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs

Bushman - a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa

Saracen - (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire

Scythian - a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia

bird of passage, roamer, rover, wanderer - someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

nomad

noun wanderer, migrant, rover, rambler, itinerant, drifter, vagabond The greater part was desert, inhabited by nomads.

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nomad

(ˈnəumӕd) noun

one of a group of people with no permanent home who travel about with their sheep, cattle etc. Many of the people of central Asia are nomads.nómada

noˈmadic adjective

nómada

noˈmadically adverb

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