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nomadship

noun

Etymology

From nomad + -ship.

  1. derived from νομάς
  2. derived from Nomas
  3. borrowed from nomade
  4. suffixed as nomadship — “nomad + ship”

Definitions

  1. The condition, state, or status of a nomad

    • The book begins then with an evocation of terrible alienation, a paese irrecoverably lost, a nomadship only terminated by self-destruction: a lost soul surviving precariously in the memory of an embattled friend.
    • Not long after she returned to Gloversville from Tucson, I began a decade-long academic nomadship during which I jumped from job to job, trying to teach and be a writer at the same time.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA