| 释义 |
nomad, n. and a.|ˈnɒmæd, ˈnəʊmæd|
[ad. L. Nomad-, Nomas, a. Gr. νοµαδ-, νοµάς, f. νοµ-, νέµειν to pasture. Cf. nomades.]
1. A person belonging to a race or tribe which moves from place to place to find pasture; hence, one who lives a roaming or wandering life.
1587Golding De Mornay viii. (1592) 99 The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. ii. v. 198 The people build no houses but like Nomads living in Cabins remoue from one place to an other. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. (1858) 286 Wise men pestered with nomads. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxviii. 372 We are absolutely nomads, so far as there can be any..pastoral life in this region. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life xii. i. 430 The civilized English nomad is usually..a person of independent means.
2. attrib. or adj.
a. Living as a nomad; leading a roaming or wandering life; nomadic.
1798Brit. Critic Feb. 223 These last and most authentic observations on this Nomad tribe. 1853Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. ii. 54 This horde of Turks, the Chozars, was nomad and pagan. 1862Johns Brit. Birds (1874) 235 The breeding season over, they become nomad in their habits.
b. Belonging to, characteristic of, nomads.
1835Lytton Rienzi ix. vi, As of old, from the Nomad tents was built up the stately Babylon. 1850W. Irving Mahomet II. 476 They readily amalgamated with the Arabs, having the same nomad habits. 1873Farrar Fam. Speech iv. 117 In every stage of nomad unprogressiveness.
c. Comb., as nomad-pastoral.
1880Fortn. Rev. Feb. 303 The nomad-pastoral age. |