TRAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tramp mean? 

• TRAMP (noun)
  The noun TRAMP has 6 senses:

1. a vagrant

2. a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

3. a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

4. a heavy footfall

5. a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

6. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

  Familiarity information: TRAMP used as a noun is common.

• TRAMP (verb)
  The verb TRAMP has 4 senses:

1. travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

2. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

3. cross on foot

4. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

  Familiarity information: TRAMP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vagrant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bum; hobo; tramp

Context example:

he tried to help the really down-and-out bums

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

clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)

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

dosser; street person (someone who sleeps in any convenient place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

swinger; tramp

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

debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hiker; tramp; tramper

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

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

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

backpacker; packer (a hiker who wears a backpack)

Derivation:

tramp (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment)

tramp (cross on foot)

tramp (travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A heavy footfall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the tramp of military boots

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

footfall; footstep; step (the sound of a step of someone walking)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tramp; tramp steamer

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

steamer; steamship (a ship powered by one or more steam engines)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hike; hiking; tramp

Context example:

she enjoys a hike in her spare time

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

walk (the act of walking somewhere)

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

trudge (a long difficult walk)

Derivation:

tramp (travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition)

• TRAMP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tramp    ... he / she / it tramps   
Past simple: tramped   
Past participle: tramped   
-ing form: tramping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

We went tramping about the state of Colorado

Hypernyms (to "tramp" is one way to...):

hike (walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children tramp to the playground

Derivation:

tramp (a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure)

tramp; tramper (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge

Context example:

Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone

Hypernyms (to "tramp" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tramp"):

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish (walk through mud or mire)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

tramper (someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cross on foot

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

We had to tramp the creeks

Hypernyms (to "tramp" is one way to...):

cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

tramp (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; swan; tramp; vagabond; wander

Context example:

They rolled from town to town

Hypernyms (to "tramp" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

drift; err; stray (wander from a direct course or at random)

wander (go via an indirect route or at no set pace)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tramp"):

maunder (wander aimlessly)

gad; gallivant; jazz around (wander aimlessly in search of pleasure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

tramp (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))

 Context examples 

Why should the tramp burn the body?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As for them, they've tramped; I don't know where's they are.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

All morning Sir Nigel rode in a very ill-humor, with his Company tramping behind him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is tramping of feet overhead, and ropes and chains are dragged along.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One was a tramp, another was a labor agitator, a third was a law-school student, and the remainder was composed of wordy workingmen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Marmee is coming down the street, and Laurie is tramping through the garden as if he had something nice to tell.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As I tramped along, the rearmost of the four, I could not help smiling at the appearance of my three companions in front.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You see," said the Cowardly Lion, with a whimper, "I haven't the courage to keep tramping forever, without getting anywhere at all."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The tramp of several heavy footsteps reverberating through the old house broke in suddenly upon Lord Avon’s words.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)