Wanderer
noun/ˈwɑndəɹɚ/US/ˈwɒndəɹə/UK
Etymology
From Middle English wanderere, wandrere, wanderare, equivalent to wander + -er. Cognate with Scots wanderer, wandirer (“wanderer”), Dutch wandelaar (“walker, hiker”), German Wanderer (“wanderer”), Danish vandrer (“wanderer”), Swedish vandrare (“wanderer”), Norwegian vandrer (“wanderer”).
- inherited from wanderere
Definitions
someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
- The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
- She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
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The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
The neighborhood
- synonymvagabond
- synonymambler
- synonymflaneur
- synonymgadling
- synonymitinerant
- synonymnomad
- synonymperegrinator
- synonymrambler
- synonymrover
- synonymsaunterer
- synonymstraggler
- synonymstroller
- neighborgadabout
- neighboridler
- neighborvagabond
- neighbortraveller
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA