Vagrant vs. Hobo
Vagrant and Hobo Definitions
Vagrant
One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
Hobo
One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.
Vagrant
(Archaic) A wanderer; a rover.
Hobo
A migrant worker.
Vagrant
One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance.
Hobo
Also hobo bag A large, crescent-shaped handbag with a single shoulder strap and usually a zippered top.
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Vagrant
An animal occurring beyond its normal range; an accidental.
Hobo
To live or wander like a vagrant.
Vagrant
Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support.
Hobo
(North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.
Vagrant
Living on the streets or constituting a public nuisance.
Hobo
(North America) Any migratory laborer, whether homeless or not.
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Vagrant
Inconstant or capricious; wayward
"She was resolved to win my vagrant fancy" (Frank Harris).
Hobo
A kind of large handbag.
Vagrant
Moving in a random fashion; having no fixed direction or pattern
Vagrant ice floes.
A vagrant aroma.
Hobo
To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.
Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.
Vagrant
Being beyond its normal range; accidental. Used of animals.
Hobo
A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living.
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Vagrant
(dated) A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
Hobo
A disreputable vagrant;
A homeless tramp
He tried to help the really down-and-out bums
Vagrant
(specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.
Vagrant
Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
Vagrant
An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
Vagrant
Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
A vagrant beggar
Vagrant
Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
Vagrant
(figurative) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.
Vagrant
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.
While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love.
Vagrant
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
Vagrant
One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view.
Vagrant
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Vagrant
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
A drifting double-dealer
The floating population
Vagrant hippies of the sixties
