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nomad

/ˈnəʊmæd/US/ˈnoʊmæd/

nomad noun: a member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.

nomad: a member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home
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Noun

nomad (plural nomads)

  1. A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
    • The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...1587, Philippe de Mornay, translated by Philip Sidney et al., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113
    • Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled...2013 August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
  2. (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
    Synonyms:
    wanderer, vagabond
  3. (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
    • Once again Judy was a nomad, moving to yet again another destination.2010, J. Knight, Unloved, →ISBN, page 58
    • I made my exit down I-75, heading south. After a 40-year odyssey as a media nomad, I will be closing the circle in a place where my life had never been better.2014, Dan Lovett, Anybody Seen Dan Lovett?: Memoirs of a media nomad, →ISBN, page 10
  4. (figuratively) A player who changes teams frequently.
    • With the recruitment of South Australian football nomad, and eventual legend of the game, Phil Matson, Subiaco would improve considerably in 1912.2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion, →ISBN, page 282
    • Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis.2014, Wayne Stewart, Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial, →ISBN, page 49
  5. A dragonfly of Afroeurasia, Sympetrum fonscolombii.

Adjective

nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)

  1. Synonym of nomadic.
    Synonyms:
    nomadic

Proper noun capitalized: NoMad

NoMad

  1. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, United States.
    Synonyms:
    Madison Square North

nomad meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

nomad in Hindi

a member of society or class who wander with their herds
बंजारा bañjārā

nomad in Tamil

a member of society or class who wander with their herds
நாடோடி nāṭōṭi

nomad in Urdu

آوارہ گرد, بدو, بنجارہ, خانہ بدوش

nomad in Bengali

স্থায়ী আবাসহীন, যাযাবর, বেদে
More languagesFewer languages
nomad in Malayalam
നാടോടി nāṭōṭi
nomad in Kannada
ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ, ಸಂಚಾರಿ, ಸುತ್ತುಂಗಾರ, ಸುತ್ತುಗಾರ
nomad in Punjabi
ਖਾਨਾਬਦੋਸ਼, ਖਾਨਾਬਦੋਸ਼
nomad in Gujarati
ખાનાબદોશ
nomad in Odia
ଯାଯାବର
nomad in Pashto
کډبه kaḍbá, کډوال kaḍwā́l
nomad in Arabic
بَدَوِيّ badawiyy
nomad in Persian
کوچنشین kuč-nešin
nomad in Thai
ผู้เร่ร่อน pûu-rêe-rɔ̂ɔn, คนพเนจร kon-pá-nee-jɔɔn
nomad in Vietnamese
người dân du mục

Examples of nomad in a sentence

  • Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.2016, Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense, →ISBN:
  • Between 1996 and 2003, Lewis was a baseball nomad.2015, Pete Cava, Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players, →ISBN:

All 34 example sentences with nomad

Synonyms of nomad

Forms of nomad

Noun
pluralnomads
Adjective
comparativemore nomad
superlativemost nomad

Plural of nomad: nomads

Origin of nomad

From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.

Blend of north + Madison. From being centered upon Madison Square North Historic District and being north of Madison Square Park.

Words formed from nomad

Questions about nomad

What does nomad mean?
Nomad means a member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
What is nomad in Hindi?
Nomad in Hindi is बंजारा (bañjārā). See Nomad meaning in Hindi.
How do you use nomad in a sentence?
Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.
What part of speech is nomad?
Nomad can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce nomad?
Nomad is pronounced /ˈnəʊmæd/ (UK).
What is the plural of nomad?
The plural of nomad is nomads.

Words near nomad in the dictionary

  1. nom-de-Web
  2. nom.
  3. nom. action.
  4. noma
  5. noma pudendi
  6. nomad
  7. nomade
  8. nomades
  9. nomadian
  10. nomadians
  11. nomadic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nomad (page history and authors); NoMad (page history and authors); nomad (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nomad (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nomad (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nomad (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nomad (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nomad (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); کډبه (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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