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wanderer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɒndəɹə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/ (General-American)
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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”).

Meanings

1. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
   • 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. 1898, Leon H. Vincent, The Bibliotaph And Other People:
   • 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. 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
   • 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. 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:
2. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
3. (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

Forms

Deriveds

lesser wanderer · plains-wanderer · inwanderer

Hypernyms

traveller

Relateds

gadabout · vagabond · idler

Synonyms

ambler · stroller · straggler · saunterer · vagabond · wanderer · vagrant · rambler · nomad · peregrinator · walke-street · flaneur · rover · itinerant · gadling

Translations (81)

gl gandaieiro (one who wanders) · it ramingo (one who wanders) · es patiperro (one who wanders) · it girovago (one who wanders) · sv vandrare (one who wanders) · ca rodamón (one who wanders) · gl vagaceiro (one who wanders) · ka მაწანწალა (one who wanders) · pl włóczykij (one who wanders) · pl wałęga (one who wanders) · ckb ئاوارە (one who wanders) · pt nômade (one who wanders) · id pengembara (one who wanders) · gl leilán (one who wanders) · ca nòmada (one who wanders) · gl lorán (one who wanders) · nl wandelaar (one who wanders) · ru стра́нник (one who wanders) · izh hulkkuri (one who wanders) · fi kulkuri (one who wanders) · fr vagabond (one who wanders) · pl wędrowiec (one who wanders) · fr vagant (one who wanders) · bg странник (one who wanders) · gl vanadante (one who wanders) · gl leirán (one who wanders) · ru путеше́ственник (one who wanders) · ja 放浪者 (one who wanders) · gl vagabundo (one who wanders) · it errante (one who wanders) · gl calaceiro (one who wanders) · it nomade (one who wanders) · cs nomád (one who wanders) · gl vadío (one who wanders) · fr errant (one who wanders) · es pataiperro (one who wanders) · cop ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲱϯ (one who wanders) · it errabondo (one who wanders) · gl vagamundo (one who wanders) · gl moinante (one who wanders) · de Wanderer (one who wanders) · pt vagabundo (one who wanders) · pl tułacz (one who wanders) · pl łazik (one who wanders) · gl galloufeiro (one who wanders) · nl dwaler (one who wanders) · fi kuljeksija (one who wanders) · ar هَائِم (one who wanders) · nl zwermer (one who wanders) · mi murare (one who wanders) · ang wandrere (one who wanders) · ka მოხეტიალე (one who wanders) · hy թափառական (one who wanders) · bg скитник (one who wanders) · fa سرگردان (one who wanders) · pdt Waundra (one who wanders) · sv vandringsman (one who wanders) · fr nomade (one who wanders) · nl doler (one who wanders) · it vagante (one who wanders) · id pengelana (one who wanders) · pl nomada (one who wanders) · gl vaganao (one who wanders) · pl łazęga (one who wanders) · pt vagante (one who wanders) · pt vagabunda (one who wanders) · pl włóczęga (one who wanders) · it vagabondo (one who wanders) · es vagabundo (one who wanders) · hu vándor (one who wanders) · mk та́лкач (one who wanders) · ga rianaí (one who wanders) · cy crwydriad (one who wanders) · la errō (one who wanders) · cy crwydryn (one who wanders) · mk ски́тник (one who wanders) · cs tulák (one who wanders) · es nómada (one who wanders) · tr gezgin (one who wanders) · grc πλανήτης (one who wanders) · he נודד (one who wanders)