In this period, the meaning of 浪人 was close to a person who wandered around, although 牢人 existed, and it was in the late Muromachi period that the social status-indicating the term of 牢人 came to be firmly used.
この頃の浪人は浮浪の意味に近く、牢人の者もいたが牢人という身分語が定着するのは室町時代後期である。