nomad

5 definitions found

nomad - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nomad \Nom"ad\, n. [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.]
     One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but
     wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
     [1913 Webster]

  Nomad \Nom"ad\, a.
     Roving; nomadic.
     [1913 Webster]

nomad - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nomad
      n 1: a member of a people who have no permanent home but move
           about according to the seasons

nomad - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  NOMAD
  
     <language, database> A database language.
  
     Version: NOMAD2 from Must Software International.
  
     ["NOMAD Reference Manual", Form 1004, National CSS Inc, Dec
     1976].
  
     (1995-04-01)
  

nomad - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "nomad":
     Arab, Bedouin, Bohemian, Romany, Zigeuner, circumforaneous,
     discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant, flitting, floating,
     footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy,
     gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrational,
     migratory, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting,
     straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory,
     transmigratory, tzigane, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, zingaro