Wanderlust

See also: wanderlust

English

Noun

Wanderlust (countable and uncountable, plural Wanderlusts)

1. Alternative letter-case form of wanderlust
   • 1912, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Wanderlust”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 123:

     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.

   • 1932, August C[arl] Mahr, “Introduction”, in The Visit of the “Rurik” to San Francisco in 1816 (Stanford University Publications, University Series ; History, Economics, and Political Science; volume II, number 2), Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, pages 17–18:

     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.

   • 1937 April, “New Publications in the Leisure Time Field”, in Recreation, volume XXXI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: National Recreation Association, →OCLC, page 55, column 1:

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

German

Etymology

From wandern (“to hike/wander”) +‎ Lust (“joy”).

Noun

Wanderlust f (genitive Wanderlust, no plural)

1. wanderlust; the urge to travel, the love of the "great outdoors"

Declension

Declension of Wanderlust [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Wanderlust
genitive	einer	der	Wanderlust
dative	einer	der	Wanderlust
accusative	eine	die	Wanderlust

Related terms

• wanderlustig

See also

• Fernweh

Further reading

• “Wanderlust” in Duden online