What is another word for gipsy?

Pronunciation: [d͡ʒˈɪpsi] (IPA)

The word "gipsy" has been used for centuries to describe a nomadic people group, known for their traveling lifestyle, colorful clothing, and rich cultural heritage. However, as language evolves, some individuals may find the term offensive or outdated. As such, several synonyms have emerged over time that carry similar meaning - travelers, nomads, wanderers, itinerants, vagabonds, and romantics. These alternatives reflect the diverse and rich history of the people that they describe while acknowledging the need for language to grow and shift with time. Ultimately, it is essential to respect the preferences of those who identify with this community and embrace progress in language, culture, and society.

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  • Equivalence

    • Noun, singular or mass
      gypsy.
  • Independent

    • Proper noun, singular
      roma.
    • Noun, singular or mass
      roma.

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Usage examples for Gipsy

Mr. Browning was, with his family, at Pornic many years ago, and there saw the gipsy who is the original of Fifine.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
She had excused herself on the plea of her ill-health; and he was riding forth in no amiable mood, when an old gipsy woman, well known in the neighbourhood, accosted him with the usual prayer for alms.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
The Duchess accompanied her visitor to the castle gate, ordered her palfrey to be saddled, mounted it with the gipsy behind her, and bounded away, never to return.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Famous quotes with Gipsy

  • One could divine pretty nearly where the force lay, since the last ten years had given to the great mechanical energies — coal, iron, steam — a distinct superiority in power over the old industrial elements — agriculture, handwork, and learning; but the result of this revolution on a survivor from the fifties resembled the action of the earthworm; he twisted about, in vain, to recover his starting-point; he could no longer see his own trail; he had become an estray; a flotsam or jetsam of wreckage; a belated reveller, or a scholar-gipsy like Matthew Arnold's. His world was dead. Not a Polish Jew fresh from Warsaw or Cracow — not a furtive Yacoob or Ysaac still reeking of the Ghetto, snarling a weird Yiddish to the officers of the customs — but had a keener instinct, an intenser energy, and a freer hand than he — American of Americans, with Heaven knew how many Puritans and Patriots behind him, and an education that had cost a civil war.
    Henry Adams
  • Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?
    Ralph Hodgson
  • For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.
    Thomas Sturge Moore
  • Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She ’ll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can’t imagine why or whence;— Then in a moment—Presto, pass!— Your joys are withered like the grass;
    Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • The gipsy tents are on the down, The gipsy girls are here; And it's O to be off and away from the town With a gipsy for my dear!
    Arthur Symons

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