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   No·mad

   /ˈnōˌmad/

   

   noun

   • 1. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock: "the withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the Sahara to descend into the Nile valley"
   • ▪ a person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer: "Dolly was a nomad who had finally taken root in Hawaii"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French nomade, via Latin from Greek nomas, nomad- ‘roaming in search of pasture’, from the base of nemein ‘to pasture’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. nomadism noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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