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Meaning of NOMADIC

Pronunciation:  now'madik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
 
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 Synonyms: mobile, peregrine, roving, unsettled, wandering
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\No*mad"ic\, a. [Gr. ?. See {Nomad}.]
Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering;
moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic
tribe. -- {No*mad"ic*al*ly}, adv.
 

 

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