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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

vagabond, etc.

Hi,

(L) Vagabond, vagrant, tramp, rambler,…

(1) Could you please add more similar words to this list?
(2) Which of the words can still be heard in everyday English?
(3) Could you rearrange the words in the list so the most frequently used ones come first?
(4) I guess all these words have a negative connotation?
One can say “treveller” of course (“treveller” is obviously 100% positive?) but it would be “too banal” and not very close to the list (L) either?

Hope my questions make sense.
Thank you so much!

mus-te
  

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1. Other similar type words: free spirit, drifter, ***, hobo. 2.

— Anonymous

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  • Other similar type words: free spirit, drifter, ***, hobo.
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  • The most commonly heard one today in the US is drifter.
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1. Other similar type words: free spirit, drifter, ***, hobo.

2. The most commonly heard one today in the US is drifter.

3. The most frequently heard to the least frequently heard list is probably something like:

drifter
vagabond
tramp
***
vagrant
free spirit
rambler
hobo
traveler

4. In the US these words are generally negat
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Dear Anonymous,
Thanks a lot for your reply! I really apppreciate it! Emotion: shake hands

Kind Regards,

mus-te
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As a sidelight to this, I might add that, although these words are generally negative in tone - you wouldn't want to say you've been a drifter on a job application for a bank or accounting firm - nevertheless, a kind of romanticized mythology has grown up around the drifter, so that writers, like Truman Capote, for example (the protagonists in his novels Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood ar
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VERY interesting comment .... it is definitely one of the best I have received on the EnglishForward since I joined it.
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