nomad
/ˈnəʊmæd/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈnəʊmæd/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈnō-ˌmad/ (ame, mw)
nomad — noun
- nomadsingular
- nomadsplural
1. someone belonging to a community that travels through different lands to find fo
someone belonging to a community that travels through different lands to find food, water, or grazing for their animals, instead of settling in one home.
Karim grew up among the desert nomads who followed the rain across northern Chad.
noun phrase: [region] nomads who [verb] across [place]
The Mongolian nomads packed their felt tents onto camels every spring.
modifier + nomads (ethnic/geographic descriptor)
Apinya wrote her thesis on the reindeer-herding nomads of northern Sweden.
Drought in the Sahel forced many nomads to abandon their herds.
Zuri visited a camp where the nomads were preparing to cross the mountains.
- wanderer
broader and more literary; covers any person without a fixed route
- pastoralist
technical anthropology term focused on herders; narrower than nomad
- drifter
negative connotation: someone moving aimlessly, often jobless; nomad implies a cultural pattern
- settler
someone who establishes a permanent home
文法句型
a nomad of [region]
[ethnic] nomads
用法筆記
Typically appears with an ethnic or geographic modifier ('desert nomads', 'Tuareg nomads', 'Mongolian nomads'). The noun is usually count-plural in real usage because it names a member of a group; singular 'a nomad' is grammatical but less common outside definitions and modern figurative uses ('a digital nomad').