Wanderer
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
- 2 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."
- 3 a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine wordnet
- 4 Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
- 5 someone who leads a wandering unsettled life wordnet
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- 6 The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans. colloquial
Example
More examples"Again the younger brother became a wanderer, and he arrived one day at the house of the elder brother."
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”).
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