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Wanderer

//ˈwɑndəɹɚ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
  2. 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. 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. 4
    Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
  5. 5
    someone who leads a wandering unsettled life wordnet
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  1. 6
    The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans. colloquial

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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