Model Sentences
Residents of a Tenderloin-area building say they're scared to go outside because of aggressive homeless people who've set up the city's biggest vagrant camp.
residents say they’re being spooked by a growing number of vagrant neighbors.
"there are Treaties and Agreements about taking vagrant animals like this little one to Antarctica in case pathogens are introduced,"
Roots Prefixes and suffixes
Suffixes- ant
Vagr(ant)
one that performs- a specific action
ant is a suffix of nouns denoting impersonal physical agents
Root word(s)- Vagabond, vagabundus
Commonly found-trends
Vagrant usually appears at the end of sentence
It is used to describe
Usually doesn't start sentences
Noun always follows
Usually isn't a compliment
Etymology
Vagrant means wanderer- no settled home or regular basis- beggar
The language of origin is French and latin
Vagrant and Vagabond mean the same thing originating from a latin word vagabundus, meaning wandering around with no destination
Italy and France
The word vagrant and its use and pronunciation in the world hasn't majorly changed- definition stayed the same.
At the origin of the word vagrant or vagabond, it was illegal and you would be jailed if you were a vagrant. They were known as "incorrigible and dangerous rogues" being a vagrant and being above 19 years of age you were on board for execution. Now the term vagrant has lightened up and isn't as illegal and known as a dangerous outlaw but now someone who maybe is homeless or has no destined home and wanders around from place to place
My Sentence Definition
By not being settled and are wandering around someone would be known as a vagrant person
Vagrant-describes living things