Wayfarer
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A traveller, especially one on foot.
"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."
- 2 a traveler going on a trip wordnet
- 3 a pedestrian who walks from place to place wordnet
Example
More examples"Many a wayfarer upon the high road which ran by Ferrier's farm felt long-forgotten thoughts revive in their minds as they watched her lithe, girlish figure tripping through the wheat-fields, or met her mounted upon her father's mustang, and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West."
Etymology
From Middle English weyfarere, weifarere; equivalent to way + farer.
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