Nomad

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

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