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05-06-2007, 09:06 PM
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Trying to look for that word with this definition.
Hi, I have heard the word before with this definition, but I can't remember the word, only the definition.
It means someone who has no country, or they don't belong anywhere. Like, they were born on the road, or not a citizen of any country. If you remember that word, please tell me! Thanks!
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05-06-2007, 09:47 PM
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Are you thinking about nomad or vagabond? Definition: a person, usually without a permanent home, who wanders from place to place
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05-07-2007, 09:38 AM
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"Expatriate", "émigré", "outlander" might be the words you seek, but here are a few others.
outcast, vagrant, itinerant, derelict, exiled, bereft, vagabond, forsaken, displaced, dispossessed, beyond the pale*, outside the gates*, Bohémien
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05-07-2007, 06:00 PM
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or, just plain 'homeless'?
there's also:
foundling
stray
orphan
guttersnipe
waif
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05-07-2007, 09:41 PM
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Haha, guttersnipe.
Uh, ahem...First word that came to my mind was "vagrant" , though that may not be exactly specifically precisely synonymous to what you're looking for.
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05-08-2007, 01:48 PM
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Citizen of the World?
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05-08-2007, 05:26 PM
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Disspossesed I think. What about mis-placed, dis-placed
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05-08-2007, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by grartx
Hi, I have heard the word before with this definition, but I can't remember the word, only the definition.
It means someone who has no country, or they don't belong anywhere. Like, they were born on the road, or not a citizen of any country. If you remember that word, please tell me! Thanks!
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05-08-2007, 05:48 PM
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Nomad did it for me, vagrant and vagabond have criminal/bad connotations in my book (for better or worse). Of course, if you want an actual people who live on the road then you've got gypsies.
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05-10-2007, 11:43 PM
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cosmopolite, gypsy, wanderer, adventurer, voyager, drifter, wayfarer, sojourner
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