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Webster 1913 Edition


Nomadic

No-mad′ic

,
Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK]. 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nomadic

NOMADIC

,
Adj.
Pastoral; subsisting by the tending of cattle, and wandering for the sake of pasturage; as the nomadic tribes of Asia.

Definition 2024


nomadic

nomadic

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Alternative forms

  • nomadick (obsolete)

Adjective

nomadic (comparative more nomadic, superlative most nomadic)

  1. Of, or relating to nomads.
  2. Leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; peripatetic, itinerant.
    • 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 4748:
      Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported [] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.

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