wanderer

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈwɑndəɹɚ/
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/ˈwɑndəɹɚ/ · /ˈwɒndəɹə/

Definition of wanderer

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

  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.”
    “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.”
  3. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
  4. (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”).

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