Wanderer

Quick meaning: Wanderer is a noun meaning One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

Meaning

One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

More Meanings

1. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
2. (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground. There are several varieties of him. The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all. On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books. He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth.

Word Forms

• wanderers

Synonyms for wanderer

Depending on context, synonyms include vagabond, ambler, flaneur, gadling, itinerant, nomad.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rover, nomad, stray, wayworn, wanderess, inwanderer.

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