Main Entry: no·mad

Pronunciation: 'nO-"mad, British also 'nä-

Function: noun

Etymology: Latin nomad-, nomad member of a wandering pastoral people, from

Greek, from nemein.

Date: 1579

- no·mad·ism /'nO-"ma-"di-z&m/ noun

1 : A member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory.

2 : An individual who roams about aimlessly - nomad adjective.

3 : To wonder as in NOMADIC, never to be in one place, never knowing where they are or where they are going, no place to call home, to roam freely,

to come and go with out being seen.