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synonyms for nomads

  • migrant
  • pilgrim
  • vagabond
  • wanderer
  • hobo
  • itinerant
  • rambler
  • roamer
  • rover
  • wayfarer
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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nomads, such as: vagabond, pilgrim, wanderer, migrant, rover, and itinerant.

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How to use nomads in a sentence

This is what makes nomads of the Savages, and prevents them from remaining long in one place.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUS
Finally he came to a clearing and stopped at an Arab village, where he met a great number of the diminutive nomads.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRIS
Tsampa can be obtained everywhere in Tibet, though it is easier to get it in the villages than from the tents of the nomads.
MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE, 1921CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURY
There was no place for them to live but in the caves or as nomads migrating with the animals.
SPACE PRISONTOM GODWIN
This is the rock on which attempts to introduce agriculture among savages or nomads have usually been shipwrecked.
THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLER
They roamed as nomads in the country around and north of the Black and the Caspian Seas, and were known as the wildest barbarians.
THE PROPHET EZEKIELARNO C. GAEBELEIN
Tribes also moved down from the north: nomads, or offshoots from the powerful states which stretch into Asia Minor.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUS
Several large side valleys open into ours, and deserted hearths are signs of the visits of nomads in summer.
TRANS-HIMALAYA, VOL. 2 (OF 2)SVEN HEDIN
If he gives no trouble, see that the nomads serve him well and do him no harm on the way to Gartok.
TRANS-HIMALAYA, VOL. 2 (OF 2)SVEN HEDIN
China is like an Egypt or Sumeria, so big that the nomads—those terrible agents of change—beat on its mass in vain.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKINDHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
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