wanderer
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Definition of wanderer
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noun
- someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
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noun
- someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
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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.”
“The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground. There are several varieties of him. The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all. On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books. He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth.”
“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.
- (colloquial)The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
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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”).
Words you can make from wanderer
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1 word6-letter words
31 words- DEEWAN 10 pts
- DRAWEE 10 pts
- DRAWER 10 pts
- REDRAW 10 pts
- REDREW 10 pts
- REWARD 10 pts
- WANDER 10 pts
- WARDEN 10 pts
- WARDER 10 pts
- WARNED 10 pts
- WARRED 10 pts
- WEANED 10 pts
- REWEAR 9 pts
- WARNER 9 pts
- WARREN 9 pts
- WEANER 9 pts
- WEARER 9 pts
- DARNER 7 pts
- DEARER 7 pts
- EARNED 7 pts
- ENDEAR 7 pts
- ERRAND 7 pts
- NEARED 7 pts
- READER 7 pts
- REARED 7 pts
- REDEAR 7 pts
- RENDER 7 pts
- REREAD 7 pts
- EARNER 6 pts
- NEARER 6 pts
- REEARN 6 pts
5-letter words
24 words4-letter words
43 words- AWED 8 pts
- DAWN 8 pts
- DRAW 8 pts
- DREW 8 pts
- WADE 8 pts
- WAND 8 pts
- WARD 8 pts
- WEED 8 pts
- WEND 8 pts
- ANEW 7 pts
- AWEE 7 pts
- EWER 7 pts
- WANE 7 pts
- WARE 7 pts
- WARN 7 pts
- WEAN 7 pts
- WEAR 7 pts
- WEEN 7 pts
- WEER 7 pts
- WERE 7 pts
- WREN 7 pts
- DARE 5 pts
- DARN 5 pts
- DEAN 5 pts
- DEAR 5 pts
- DEER 5 pts
- DENE 5 pts
- DERE 5 pts
- DREE 5 pts
- NARD 5 pts
- NEED 5 pts
- NERD 5 pts
- RAND 5 pts
- READ 5 pts
- REDE 5 pts
- REED 5 pts
- REND 5 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- ERNE 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- RARE 4 pts
- REAR 4 pts
3-letter words
34 words- DAW 7 pts
- DEW 7 pts
- WAD 7 pts
- WED 7 pts
- AWE 6 pts
- AWN 6 pts
- EEW 6 pts
- EWE 6 pts
- NAW 6 pts
- NEW 6 pts
- RAW 6 pts
- WAE 6 pts
- WAN 6 pts
- WAR 6 pts
- WEE 6 pts
- WEN 6 pts
- AND 4 pts
- DAN 4 pts
- DEE 4 pts
- DEN 4 pts
- END 4 pts
- RAD 4 pts
- RED 4 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- ERE 3 pts
- ERN 3 pts
- ERR 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- NEE 3 pts
- RAN 3 pts
- REE 3 pts
2-letter words
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