Vagrant vs. Hobo
Difference Between Vagrant and Hobo
Vagrantnoun
One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
Hobonoun
One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
Vagrantnoun
(Archaic) A wanderer; a rover.
Hobonoun
A migrant worker.
Vagrantnoun
One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance.
Hobonoun
also hobo bag A large, crescent-shaped handbag with a single shoulder strap and usually a zippered top.
Vagrantnoun
An animal occurring beyond its normal range; an accidental.
Hoboverb
To live or wander like a vagrant.
Vagrantadjective
Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support.
Hobonoun
(North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.
Vagrantadjective
Living on the streets or constituting a public nuisance.
Hobonoun
(North America) Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
Vagrantadjective
Inconstant or capricious; wayward
"She was resolved to win my vagrant fancy" (Frank Harris).Hobonoun
A kind of large handbag.
Vagrantadjective
Moving in a random fashion; having no fixed direction or pattern
vagrant ice floes.a vagrant aroma.Hoboverb
To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
''Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.Vagrantadjective
Being beyond its normal range; accidental. Used of animals.
Hobonoun
a disreputable vagrant;
a homeless tramphe tried to help the really down-and-out bumsVagrantnoun
A person without a home; a wanderer.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighborhood begging for food.Vagrantnoun
An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species’ usual range.
Vagrantnoun
(entomology) A widely-distributed Asian butterfly, Vagrans egista, family Nymphalidae.
Vagrantadjective
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
Vagrantadjective
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.
a vagrant beggarVagrantnoun
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Vagrantadjective
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
a drifting double-dealerthe floating populationvagrant hippies of the sixties
