- 1流浪漢、四處漂泊的人；（形容詞）漂泊流浪的。偏文學、老派用法，帶點浪漫色彩，不是現在講無家者的正常說法。
A vagabond is a person with no fixed home, who moves from place to place. It is an old-fashioned word, and it comes with a whole picture attached: dusty roads, a bag over the shoulder, no money, no job, sleeping wherever night finds you.
The feeling depends on who is speaking. In older laws and older books it was an insult, close to "tramp" or "good-for-nothing", and a vagabond could be arrested simply for being one. But in songs, poems, and travel writing it turns romantic — the free spirit who owes nothing to anybody. "A vagabond life" usually means a free, wandering, life, and often sounds attractive rather than sad.
Modern English rarely uses it about a real person today. For someone truly without a home we say "homeless person"; for someone travelling long-term by choice we say "drifter", "", or "nomad". You will meet vagabond mainly in literature, in older texts, and in band names and song titles.
It also works as an adjective (a vagabond life, vagabond years) and, rarely and formally, as a verb meaning to wander about.
組成From Old French vagabond, from Late Latin vagābundus, built on Latin vagārī "to wander". The -bundus ending means "doing this, given to doing this" — so, given to wandering.
同家族的字
- vaguefrom Latin vagus, wandering — a vague idea is one that will not stay in one place
- vagrantthe legal word for a person with no settled home; the same wandering idea
- extravagantextra- (beyond) + vagārī (wander): spending that wanders beyond the limits
- moribundthe same -bund ending as in vagabond — given to dying, near death
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vagabondnoun/ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/
- 1
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
- 2
One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
- Foꝛ when thou tylleſt the grounde ſhe ſhall hẽcefoꝛth not geve hyꝛ power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate ſhalt thou be vpon the erth.
- "Here is the beastly thing. 'Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond', and so on and so forth."
vagabondverb/ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/
- 1
To roam, as a vagabond
vagabondadj/ˈvæ.ɡə.bɒnd/
- 1
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- 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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。