VAGRANT


Meaning of VAGRANT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

rare

A rare transatlantic vagrant , with forewing bluer grey than wing, easily told by conspicuous white crescentic mark in front of eye.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

City authorities are planning a campaign to get an estimated 300,000 vagrants off the streets.

Our charity provides shelter, meals, and clothing for vagrants.

The number of vagrants is increasing because of the lack of affordable accommodation for rent in the capital.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.

I leave the refundable soda-bottle on the bench to make it a little easier for the vagrants.

The Experience has reinvigorated downtown Las Vegas, for years the habitat of the serious gambler and the serious vagrant .

Then jealousy and anxiety moved in and squatted like diseased vagrants.

Today's vagrants, squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways, are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere.

We vagrants have to seem strong when we may feel weak.

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