Of pre-industrial peoples, and of animals: nomadic, roving, migratory. Frequently after scientific Latin errans, vagus, etc.

Leading a wandering life; vagrant, strolling.

Leading a wandering or nomadic life; ranging or roaming from place to place; straying, straggling. Cf. vagant, adj. 1.

Not settled in a particular place or position.

That lives in a tent, tent-dwelling, nomadic; relating to this way of life; esp. designating a nomadic Arab; Bedouin.

Non-resident, having no residence.

= nomadic, adj. 1a.

Characteristic of a nomad; itinerant. Cf. nomadic, adj. 1a 2.

Having no seat or seats (in any sense of the noun).

Of a person or group of people: living as a nomad or nomads; itinerant. Also in extended use.

= nomad, adj. 1.

Of a people, way of life, etc.: partially nomadic and partially settled. Frequently applied to a social group that depends largely on seasonal…