n. 1
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.
n. 2
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
v. 1
To roam, as a vagabond
adj. 1
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Related words

Forms

Plural: vagabonds → vagrants, tramps, wanderers, nomads…
Past participle: vagabonded
e.g. vagabonded → wandered, strayed, roamed, roved…

tramp Don't tramp in the living room with muddy feet.
nomad In two nomad camps are ten horses.
wanderer I am just a wanderer, seeking purity of the soul.
vagrant If you meet a vagrant or a beggar, it's good to give them some money.
wretch "And then she stole my boyfriend." "That wretch!"

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: bum¹
4 letters: cast¹, roll¹, swan¹, roam¹, hobo², rove¹, waif¹
5 letters: range¹, vague¹, stiff¹, rogue¹, drift¹, stray¹, gypsy², shack¹, tramp¹, nomad², idler³, piker²
6 letters: wander², stroll¹, beggar², roving², ramble², wretch¹, loafer², truant²
7 letters: wayward², outcast², nomadic³, vagrant², drifter², floater², aimless², swagman, caitiff
8 letters: floating², drifting², derelict³, stroller², wanderer³, rootless², straggle², clochard, runagate
9 letters: wandering³, itinerant⁴, landloper
13 letters: unpredictable⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hobo² = 2 syllables).