wayfarer
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English weyfarere, weifarere; equivalent to way + farer.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈweɪˌfɛəɹ.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editwayfarer (plural wayfarers)
- A traveller, especially one on foot.
- 1904, L. Higgin, Eugène E. Street, Spanish Life in Town and Country[1]:
- English travellers are sometimes found grumbling because the señor who keeps a wayside posada, or even a more pretentious inn in one of the towns, does not stand, hat in hand, bowing obsequiously to the wayfarer who deigns to use the accommodation provided.
- 1954 [1948], Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot […] , New York: Grove Press, translation of En attendant Godot, page 11:
- ESTRAGON: That would be too bad, really too bad. (Pause.) Wouldn't it, Didi, be really too bad? (Pause.) When you think of the beauty of the way. (Pause.) And the goodness of the wayfarers. (Pause. Wheedling.) Wouldn't it, Didi?
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