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Tramp
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Tramp has 6 senses
- tramp(n = noun.person) bum, hobo - a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" has particulars: dosser, street person
- tramp(n = noun.person) swinger - a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex; Array is a kind of debauchee, libertine, rounder
- tramp(n = noun.person) hiker, tramper - a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure); Array has particulars: backpacker, packer
- tramp(n = noun.event) Array - a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots" is a kind of footfall, footstep, step
- tramp(n = noun.artifact) tramp steamer - a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule; Array is a kind of steamer, steamship
- tramp(n = noun.act) hike, hiking - a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time" is a kind of walk
is a kind of drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant
is a kind of footer, pedestrian, walker
Derived forms verb tramp4, verb tramp3, verb tramp1
has particulars: trudge
Derived form verb tramp1
Verb Tramp has 4 senses
- tramp(v = verb.motion) Array - travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado" is one way to hike
- tramp(v = verb.motion) footslog, pad, plod, slog, trudge - walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" is one way to walk
- tramp(v = verb.motion) Array - cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks" is one way to cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse
- tramp(v = verb.motion) cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" is one way to go, locomote, move, travel
Derived forms noun tramp6, noun tramp3, noun tramper2
Sample sentence:
The children Tramp to the playground
Derived form noun tramper1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
Derived form noun tramp3
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun tramp3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
Tramp, v. t. [OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln, LG. & D. trappen, Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, Trape, Trip, v. i. , Tread.].
- To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. [1913 Webster]
- To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. [1913 Webster]
- To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
Tramp, v. i.
To travel; to wander; to stroll. [1913 Webster]
Tramp, n.
- A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. Blackie. [1913 Webster]
- A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- A tool for trimming hedges. [1913 Webster]
- A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Tramp, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. a walk heavily and firmly (tramping about upstairs). b go on foot, esp. a distance.
2 tr. a cross on foot, esp. wearily or reluctantly. b cover (a distance) in this way (tramped forty miles).
3 tr. (often foll. by down) tread on; trample; stamp on.
4 tr. Austral. colloq. dismiss from employment, sack.
5 intr. live as a tramp.
--n.
1 an itinerant vagrant or beggar.
2 the sound of a person, or esp. people, walking, marching, etc., or of horses' hooves.
3 a journey on foot, esp. protracted.
4 a an iron plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging. b the part of a spade that it strikes.
5 esp. US sl. derog. a promiscuous woman.
6 = ocean tramp.
--v.
1 intr. a walk heavily and firmly (tramping about upstairs). b go on foot, esp. a distance.
2 tr. a cross on foot, esp. wearily or reluctantly. b cover (a distance) in this way (tramped forty miles).
3 tr. (often foll. by down) tread on; trample; stamp on.
4 tr. Austral. colloq. dismiss from employment, sack.
5 intr. live as a tramp.
--n.
1 an itinerant vagrant or beggar.
2 the sound of a person, or esp. people, walking, marching, etc., or of horses' hooves.
3 a journey on foot, esp. protracted.
4 a an iron plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging. b the part of a spade that it strikes.
5 esp. US sl. derog. a promiscuous woman.
6 = ocean tramp.
Derivative
tramper n. trampish adj.
Etymology
ME trampe f. Gmc
THESAURUS
Tramp
Arab, Bowery bum, airing, alien, amble, backpack, baggage, bat around, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, cadger, caitiff, case, character, chug on, constitutional, count ties, crackpot, crank, defile, derelict, devil, divagate, dogie, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drift, drifter, drunkard, eccentric, fanatic, file, file off, flit, floater, footfall, footslog, footstep, forced march, gad, gad about, gallivant, gamin, gamine, go about, go on parade, go the rounds, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goose-step, guttersnipe, gypsy, hermit, hike, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, hussy, idler, jade, jaunt, jezebel, jog on, knock about, knock around, kook, landloper, lazzarone, loafer, lone wolf, loner, losel, lowlife, lumber, march, mauvais sujet, maverick, mean wretch, meander, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, meshuggenah, mooch, moocher, mucker, mudlark, mush, natural, no-good, nomadize, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outsider, panhandler, parade, pariah, pauvre diable, peg, peregrinate, pererrate, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, piker, pilgarlic, plod, plod along, plug, plug along, poor creature, poor devil, promenade, prowl, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramble, range, rara avis, roam, rounder, rove, rover, rub on, run about, sad case, sad sack, saunter, schlep, schnorrer, screwball, scrounger, ski bum, skid-row bum, slattern, slog, slut, solitary, stamp, step, stiff, stodge, stomp, straggle, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, stretch, stroll, strumpet, stump, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, thud, traipse, tramper, trample, tread, trek, truant, trudge, turn, turnpiker, type, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagabondize, vagrant, vaurien, waif, waifs and strays, walk, walk the tracks, walkabout, walking tour, wander, wastrel, wayfare, worthless fellow, wretch, zealotROGET THESAURUS
Tramp
Petitioner
N petitioner, solicitor, applicant, suppliant, supplicant, suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder, place hunter, pot hunter, prizer, seeker, beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger, hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter, pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty), hippie, flower child, hard core unemployed, welfare client, welfare case, canvasser, bagman, salesman.Commonalty
N commonality, commonalty, democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company, bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, Brown Jones and Robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king Mob, proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street, mob, rabble, rabble rout, chaff, rout, horde, canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi, trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus, vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr, Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney, grisette, demimonde, peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl, villain, villein, terrae filius, son of the land, serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah, longshoreman, swain, clown, hind, clod, clodhopper, hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin, plowman, plowboy, rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling, gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling, gamin, rough, pot- wallopper, slubberdegullion, vulgar fellow, low fellow, cad, curmudgeon, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer, man of straw, beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade, gossoon, Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond, barbarousness, barbarism, boeotia, ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely, homespun, vulgar, low-minded, snobbish, plebeian, proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn, mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled, rustic, uncivilized, loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish, rude, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque, cockney, born within sound of Bow bells, underling, menial, subaltern, below the salt, dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet.Journey
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.VB travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
Traveler
N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.
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