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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nomad \Nom"ad\, noun [L. nomas, -adis, Gr. ?, ?, pasturing, roaming without fixed home, fr. ? a pasture, allotted abode, fr. ? to distribute, allot, drive to pasture; prob. akin to AS. niman to take, and E. nimble: cf. F. nomade. Cf. {Astronomy}, {Economy}, {Nimble}, {Nemesis}, {Numb}, {Number}.] One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nomad \Nom"ad\, adjective Roving; nomadic.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nomad
noun: a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "nomad": Arab, Bedouin, Bohemian, Romany, Zigeuner, circumforaneous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy, gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, tzigane, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, zingaro
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
NOMAD A {database} language. Version: NOMAD2 from {Must Software} International. ["NOMAD Reference Manual", Form 1004, National CSS Inc, Dec 1976]. (1995-04-01)
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