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vagabonding

vagabonding is the present participle and gerund of vagabond.

Meaning of vagabond

Verb

vagabond (third-person singular simple present vagabonds, present participle vagabonding, simple past and past participle vagabonded)

  1. To roam, as a vagabond

See all 4 meanings of vagabond

Adjective

vagabonding (comparative more vagabonding, superlative most vagabonding)

  1. Wandering, unfixed.
    • Oh God, what bond or dutie is it that we owe not to our Soveragne Creators benignitie, in that he hath beene pleased to cleare and enfranchise our beliefe from those vagabonding and arbitrary devotions, and fixt it upon the eternall base of his holy word?, II.12

Forms of vagabonding

comparativemore vagabonding
superlativemost vagabonding

Origin of vagabonding

From vagabond + -ing.

Questions about vagabonding

What does vagabonding mean?
Vagabonding means wandering, unfixed.
What is vagabonding the present participle and gerund of?
Vagabonding is the present participle and gerund of vagabond.
What part of speech is vagabonding?
Vagabonding is an adjective.

Words near vagabonding in the dictionary

  1. vag-lewd
  2. vagabond
  3. vagabondage
  4. vagabonded
  5. vagabondical
  6. vagabonding
  7. vagabondise
  8. vagabondised
  9. vagabondises
  10. vagabondish
  11. vagabondising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vagabonding (page history and authors); vagabond (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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