Nomad vs. Nomadic — What's the Difference?

A nomad (Middle French: nomade "people without fixed habitation") is a member of a community without fixed habitation which regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), and tinkers or trader nomads.

A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.

A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.

Of or relating to nomads.

(anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.

(anthropology) Of or related to itinerant herdsmen.

(figuratively) wanderer: an itinerant person.

(figuratively) Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal.

(figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.

Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.

A player who changes teams frequently.

(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently;

Syn of nomadic.

One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

Roving; nomadic.

A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons