wanderer
nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈwɒndəɹə//
- United States//ˈwɑndəɹɚ//
One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
noun
- 1
One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
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.
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.
- 2
Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
- 3
The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
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”).
Forms
- plural
- wanderers
wanderer · One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
Wanderer · someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as…wandering · Which wanders; travelling from place to place.wang · To batter; to clobber; to conk.