gypsy

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
noun a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
noun the Indic language of the Gypsies

See Gypsy. Compare bohemian, from Bohemia.

The gypsy did not reply. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
The Gypsy's red-haired pony, sir. — Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Charles Madison Curry
Yet the old gypsy doesn’t like unrelieved monotones. — The Blue Castle: a novel, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

itinerant, gipsy

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