wanderer
See also: Wanderer
English
Etymology
From Middle English wanderere, wandrere, wanderare, equivalent to wander + -er.
Noun
wanderer (plural wanderers)
- One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
- 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.
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- The far-migrating butterflies of genus Danaus.
Synonyms
Translations
one who wanders
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