0 a member of a group of people who move from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time:
1 a member of a group of people who move from one place to another, rather than living in one place all of the time
In bad weather, convicts had to spend the night in nomad tents erected by the locals, in caravansaries, or in empty huts.
Compared to camel pastoralists, most of whom were nomads, cattle pastoralists conducted much shorter and more regular pastoral migrations.
In addition, the nomads gained military experience during the war, and their leadership became more sophisticated.
Also, nomads are represented as totally incompatible with sedentary populations, appearing almost always as a military threat.
As nomads, they neglected urban settlements and moved administrative centers from town to encampment (hilla).
In the self-organising encampment of motor-homes, where nomads and tourists plug into a bare minimum of infrastructure, an easy going consensus-based polity is made manifest.
Without sufficient land, some nomads had little choice but to abandon their centuries-old way of life.
He defined them as a separate group of nomads, carefully classifying them into their subordinate units.
