NOMAD
What does "NOMAD" mean?
A member of a people who move from place to place rather than settling permanently.
Meanings
- A person belonging to a community that migrates seasonally, often herding livestock. The nomads followed the rains across the plateau with their herds.
- A person who roams about without a fixed home or routine. Since going remote, she's become a digital nomad working from a new city each month.
Did you know?
- 'Nomad' grows from the Greek 'nemein', to apportion pasture - the same root that gives 'economy' (household management) and 'nomos', law: wandering and rule-making spring from one idea, dividing up the land.
Word origin
From Greek 'nomas' (plural 'nomades'), meaning a wandering people who pasture flocks, from 'nemein' (to pasture, to manage) - the same root behind 'nomos', custom or law.
Remember it
A NOMAD has NO MAD-dress - no fixed address - just keep moving and the home moves too.
A little poem
The tent folds to nothing-
where the fire was, a grey ring,
then grass, then no one.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the nomad for his home address. He said, 'Wherever I am, you've arrived.'
What it teaches
Home is not a place you keep but a thing you carry - the rooted and the roaming both have to pack something.
Quick facts
What does NOMAD mean?
A member of a people who move from place to place rather than settling permanently.
Is NOMAD a valid word?
Yes — NOMAD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is NOMAD?
NOMAD has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does NOMAD come from?
From Greek 'nomas' (plural 'nomades'), meaning a wandering people who pasture flocks, from 'nemein' (to pasture, to manage) - the same root behind 'nomos', custom or law.
What can NOMAD teach us?
Home is not a place you keep but a thing you carry - the rooted and the roaming both have to pack something.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.