nomad
pronunciation
How to pronounce nomad in British English:
UK [ˈnəʊmæd]
How to pronounce nomad in American English:
US [ˈnoʊmæd]
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- Noun:
- a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
Word Origin
- nomad
- nomad: [16] The Greek verb némein had a very wide range of senses. It originally meant ‘deal out, dispense’, a signification mirrored in the derived nemesis [16] (etymologically the ‘dealing out’ of what is due) and the possibly related number. It developed subsequently to ‘inhabit’ and to ‘control, manage’ (which is represented in English economy).But a further strand was ‘put out to pasture’; and from the same stem as produced némein was formed the adjective nomás ‘wandering about to find pasture for herds or flocks’. Its plural nomádes was used to denote pastoral people who lived in this way, and the word was passed on via Latin nomades and French (singular) nomade into English.=> economy, nemesis
- nomad (n.)
- 1550s, from Middle French nomade (16c.), from Latin Nomas (genitive Nomadis) "wandering groups in Arabia," from Greek nomas (genitive nomados, plural nomades) "roaming, roving, wandering" (to find pastures for flocks or herds), related to nomos "pasture, pasturage, grazing," literally "land allotted," from PIE root *nem- "to divide, distribute, allot" (see nemesis).
Example
- 1. Bola o was a nomad of the planet and the mind .
- 2. She was a nomad and says that to this day she has never used a phone or seen a television .
- 3. As a self-described " global nomad " , he simultaneously feels at ease almost everywhere but never fully assimilated anywhere .
- 4. Like the rest of his fierce horsemen , genghis khan whose cavalry pounded across the steppe to conquer much of central asia was born a nomad .
- 5. You should also be on the look out for nomad lions .