# nomad
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈnəʊmæd/
* (US) IPA: /ˈnoʊmæd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

nomad (plural nomads)
* (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
** 1587, Philippe de Mornay, translated by Philip Sidney et al., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...
** 2013 August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
* (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
* (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
** 2010, J. Knight, Unloved, →ISBN, page 58:Once again Judy was a nomad, moving to yet again another destination.
** 2014, Dan Lovett, Anybody Seen Dan Lovett?: Memoirs of a media nomad, →ISBN, page 10:I made my exit down I-75, heading south. After a 40-year odyssey as a media nomad, I will be closing the circle in a place where my life had never been better.
** 2016, Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense, →ISBN:Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.
* (figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.
** 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion, →ISBN, page 282:With the recruitment of South Australian football nomad, and eventual legend of the game, Phil Matson, Subiaco would improve considerably in 1912.
** 2014, Wayne Stewart, Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial, →ISBN, page 49:Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis.
** 2015, Pete Cava, Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players, →ISBN:Between 1996 and 2003, Lewis was a baseball nomad. At various times he signed contracts with San Diego, Detroit, Oakland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, the New York Mets, Cleveland, and the Chicago Cubs.

#### Synonyms

* (wanderer): See Thesaurus:vagabond

#### Derived terms

* digital nomad
* gray nomad
* grey nomad
* nomade
* nomadian
* nomadic
* nomadical
* nomadism
* nomadship
* tech-nomad

#### Translations
### Adjective

nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)
* Synonym of nomadic.

### References

* "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

### Anagrams

* Damon, Doman, Domna, Mando, Monda, mad on, mad-on, mando, monad

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French nomade. Compare Aromanian numad.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /noˈmad/

### Noun

nomad m (plural nomazi, feminine equivalent nomadă)
* nomad

#### Declension
### Further reading

* nomad in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nǒmaːd/
* Hyphenation: no‧mad

### Noun

nòmād m (Cyrillic spelling но̀ма̄д)
* nomad

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French nomade. Attested since 1766.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɔmɑːd/, /nʊmɑːd/
* Rhymes: -ɑːd

### Noun

nomad c
* nomad

#### Derived terms

* nomadfolk
* nomadisera
* nomadisk
* nomadkultur
* nomadliv
* nomadstam

### References

* nomad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* nomad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* nomad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)