wanderer
See also: Wanderer
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Etymology edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒndəɹə/
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Noun edit
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.
- Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
- (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
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one who wanders