Gipsies

Meaning of Gipsies

plural noun
  1. a member of a people originating in South Asia and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across Europe and North and South America and speaking a language (Romani) that is related to Hindi; a Romani person.
  2. a nomadic or free-spirited person.
    why should she choose to wander the world with a penniless gypsy like me?

mid 16th century: originally gipcyan, short for Egyptian (because Gypsies were popularly supposed to have come from Egypt).

Information about Gipsies

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of Gipsies is: Gipsy.
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Hyphenation of Gipsies

Gip-sies

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • Gipsies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Gipsies synonyms

Meaning a member of a people originating in South Asia and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across Europe and North and South America and speaking a language that is rela:

Romani

Meaning a people originating in South Asia and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across Europe and North and South America and speaking a language (Romani) that is related:

Roma

Meaning a member of the Roma people; a Romani person:

Rom

Meaning a Romani man or boy; a male Gypsy:

chal

Meaning a Romani man or boy from Spain; a male Spanish Gypsy:

gitano

Meaning a Romani woman or girl from Spain; a female Spanish Gypsy:

gitana

Meaning a Romani person from central or eastern Europe, particularly Hungary; a Hungarian Gypsy:

tzigane

Meaning a Romani person, particularly one from Italy; an Italian Gypsy:

zingaro

Meaning a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home:

nomad

Meaning a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions:

migrant

Meaning a person who spends their time wandering:

rover

Meaning a person who travels aimlessly; a traveller:

wanderer

Meaning a person who travels on foot:

wayfarer

Meaning a Romani person; a Gypsy:

gyppo

Meaning a Traveller or Romani person:

pikey

Meaning (especially in former times) a person who makes a living by travelling from place to place mending pans and other metal utensils:

tinker

Meaning a Romani, Traveller, or other person from an itinerant community, in particular one who is not of pure Romani descent:

didicoi

Words that rhyme with Gipsies

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