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Word: Nomad
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: from French nomade, via Latin from Greek nomas, nomad- ‘roaming in search of pasture’, from the base of nemein ‘to pasture’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈnəʊmad
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home
Short Definition:member of people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals
Examples:- the withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the Sahara to descend into the Nile valley
- the nomads who roam the borderlands of Afghanistan
- the Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes
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