wanderlust

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A strong impulse or longing to travel.

   “Very often we made detours from the main caravan, rejoining it at a given spot, and this spirit of "wanderlust" brought us into a nice quandary one fine day.”

   “For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife.”

   “The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.”

   “They were deliriously happy for a few years, but always her soul felt the call of wanderlust.”

   “Apart from a visit to Paris in 1825 he [Adelbert von Chamisso] enjoyed the peace of his home and of his study at Berlin until the hour of his death without any further visitations of Wanderlust.”

2. (countable, uncountable)An impulse to be unfaithful or seek out other romantic or sexual partners; a straying heart.

   “Males like lots of rapid anonymous sex. It's a biological drive. When you get a male-female couple together the male often gives up his wanderlust in exchange for the security of having a home.”

   “I was the slapper ... was in a short piece where I was a jealous girlfriend who slapped my date for his wanderlust.”

   “Donna was a model of TRUE "Family Values"! She tried to keep Ghoulie as her busband, but his wanderlust could not be controlled.”

3. (alt-of, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of wanderlust.

   “The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.”

   “Apart from a visit to Paris in 1825 he [Adelbert von Chamisso] enjoyed the peace of his home and of his study at Berlin until the hour of his death without any further visitations of Wanderlust.”

   “If you find yourself suffering from an attack of Wanderlust, this is the book for you!”

verb

1. (intransitive)To feel a strong impulse or longing to travel.

   “Yes, he probably saw a picture of the South Sea islands last night, and now he is wanderlusting.”

2. (intransitive)To roam or travel widely.

   “"Be assured that we will never weary listening to tales related by one who has wanderlusted so many years," flattered Mrs. Cunningham, [...]”

   “It was the joy of our lives to be once more "hitting the trail," lustily as ever, Sunday last, under the brave lead of one who started the community hike here, and who, after three months wanderlusting in other lands must rejoice to find that a few brave scouts have kept up the good work here and made of us "some hikers."”

   “Moroney wanderlusted around the business houses, taking a two hour lunch on principle. People inside dealing and dialling, filing and invoicing, collating and collecting, debiting and crediting.”

   “I went there partly because I had shown signs of terminal wanderlust – and the West Coast is the premier place in the U.S. for wanderlusting around – and partly because L.A. is such a mixture of fact, fantasy, and illusion that, as an Americanist, I felt I had to go.”

   “On a one-way. Roaming holiday. Wanderlusting.”