nomad

[noh-mad] /ˈnoʊ mæd/
noun
1.
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
2.
any wanderer; itinerant.
adjective
3.
nomadic.
Origin
1580-90; < Latin nomad- < Greek, stem of nomás pasturing flocks, akin to némein to pasture, graze
Related forms
nomadism, noun
nonnomad, noun, adjective
seminomad, noun
seminomadism, noun
Examples from the web for nomad
  • Ed is a nomad at heart.
  • For the time being, he is a culinary nomad.
  • The very idea of being a nomad is absolutely alien to me.
  • This is a tough world for nomads.
  • He has been a golf nomad, and not a lucky one, either.
  • Her soul must be a nomad star with all the heavens for bent.
  • Here the relative isolation is due to traditions, language and nomad life.
  • The gypsies are nomad people.
  • Rivers, who has moved his family twice in two years, say that being a nomad is never easy.
  • He is already a basketball nomad, having done coaching stints at four universities.
British Dictionary definitions for nomad

nomad

/ˈnəʊmæd/
noun
1.
a member of a people or tribe who move from place to place to find pasture and food
2.
a person who continually moves from place to place; wanderer
Derived Forms
nomadism, noun
Word Origin
C16: via French from Latin nomas wandering shepherd, from Greek; related to nemein to feed, pasture
Word Origin and History for nomad
n.

1550s, from Middle French nomade (16c.), from Latin Nomas (genitive Nomadis) "wandering groups in Arabia," from Greek nomas (genitive nomados, plural nomades) "roaming, roving, wandering" (to find pastures for flocks or herds), related to nomos "pasture, pasturage, grazing," literally "land allotted," and to nemein "put to pasture," originally "deal out," from PIE root *nem- "to divide, distribute, allot" (see nemesis).

nomad in Technology
language, database
A database language.
Version: NOMAD2 from Must Software International.
["NOMAD Reference Manual", Form 1004, National CSS Inc, Dec 1976].
(1995-04-01)
Related Abbreviations for nomad

NOMAD

Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Association