CLOCHARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clochard mean? 

• CLOCHARD (noun)
  The noun CLOCHARD has 1 sense:

1. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

  Familiarity information: CLOCHARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOCHARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant

Hypernyms ("clochard" is a kind of...):

have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)

bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer (someone who leads a wandering unsettled life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clochard"):

beachcomber (a vagrant living on a beach)

sundowner (a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown)

bum; hobo; tramp (a vagrant)