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: a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory
For centuries nomads have shepherded goats, sheep, and cattle across the … semiarid grasslands …—
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: an individual who roams about
He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long.
nomad
adjective
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Examples of nomad in a Sentence
He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long.
after college she became quite the nomad, backpacking through Europe with no particular destination
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But with all that extra time on their hands, grey nomads are known for driving slower than, say, a family of Heelers would like them to.
—Hannah Silverman, Parents, 9 July 2024
Even the most essential — that an ancient nomad would stumble upon an entire intact Protoceratops — approaches the absurd.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2024
The steel hulk of a bridge linking both banks still served as a crossing point for northern traders and nomads in spite of the three southern tanks pointing their guns northward.
—Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2013
Mayor's contention that ancient nomads hunting for gold in Central Asia stumbled across dinosaur fossils also doesn't seem likely, given that the places where Protoceratops fossils were found are hundreds of kilometers away from ancient sites where gold had been found.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
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Hannah Silverman, Parents, 9 July 2024
Even the most essential — that an ancient nomad would stumble upon an entire intact Protoceratops — approaches the absurd.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2024
The steel hulk of a bridge linking both banks still served as a crossing point for northern traders and nomads in spite of the three southern tanks pointing their guns northward.
—Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2013
Mayor's contention that ancient nomads hunting for gold in Central Asia stumbled across dinosaur fossils also doesn't seem likely, given that the places where Protoceratops fossils were found are hundreds of kilometers away from ancient sites where gold had been found.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
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“Nomad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nomad. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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nomad
noun
no·mad
ˈnō-ˌmad 
1
: a member of a people that has no fixed home but wanders from place to place
2
: an individual who roams about without a goal or purpose
nomad
adjective
or nomadic
nō-ˈmad-ik
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