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Definition of Nomad

1. Noun. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.

Definition of Nomad

1. n. One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

2. a. Roving; nomadic.

Definition of Nomad

1. Noun. a member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc. ¹

2. Noun. a wanderer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nomad

1. a wanderer [n -S] : NOMADIC [adj] - See also: wanderer

Medical Definition of Nomad

1. One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game. Origin: L. Nomas, -adis, Gr, pasturing, roaming without fixed home, fr. A pasture, allotted abode, fr. To distribute, allot, drive to pasture; prob. Akin to AS. Niman to take, and E. Nimble: cf. F. Nomade. Cf. Astronomy, Economy, Nimble, Nemesis, Numb, Number. Roving; nomadic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nomad

Literary usage of Nomad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"THE nomad GREEKS MAKE THE TRANSITION TO THE SETTLED LIFE In tranquil summer days ... Such was exactly the condition of the nomad Greeks when they began a ..."

2. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"Forms of defense against nomad depredations. Tuaregs of the Sahara. They collected tribute in the form of grain, salt, garments, horses and gold, ..."

3. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"Forms of defense against nomad depredations. Tuaregs of the Sahara. They collected tribute in the form of grain, salt, garments, horses and gold, ..."

4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"The nomad Population, We turn now to a class of people whose origin is agricultural, but whose occupation is in great part industrial Thev are the light ..."

5. The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1888)
"The Mountain or nomad Lapp.—The Sea Lapp. —Dwellings of Sea Lapps. ... The Mountain or nomad Lapps, who live upon the increase of their herds, ..."

6. Early Hebrew Life: A Study in Sociology by John Fenton (1880)
"The nomad Period. The nomad § ?. ON a lower stage of social progress than the I'eriod. the female pastoral peoples stand the nomad. ..."

7. General Principles of the Structure of Language by James Byrne (1885)
"Such is the nature of the nomad life, and the normal construction of the nomad sentence gives an exact representation of it. The nomad as he moves from ..."

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