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wanderer

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈwɒndəɹə//
  • United States//ˈwɑndəɹɚ//

One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

noun

  1. 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. 2

    Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.

  3. 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
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).