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”).

  1. inherited from wanderere

Definitions

  1. someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.

  2. 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.
  3. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

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