What does wanderlust mean?
Wanderlust means A strong impulse or longing to travel..
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/ˈwɒndəlʌst/ · noun
A strong impulse or longing to travel..
Very often we made detours from the main caravan, rejoining it at a given spot, and this spirit of "wanderlust" brought us into a nice quandary one fine day.
For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife.
The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
They were deliriously happy for a few years, but always her soul felt the call of wanderlust.
Apart from a visit to Paris in 1825 he [Adelbert von Chamisso] enjoyed the peace of his home and of his study at Berlin until the hour of his death without any further visitations of Wanderlust.
If you find yourself suffering from an attack of Wanderlust, this is the book for you!
[Edward Verrall] Lucas is no less interested in places, imbued as he has always been with wanderlust.
The shallow waters immediately adjacent to California's 1200 miles of coastline offer a wide variety of habitats where at least 250 kinds of fishes live out all or some of their lives. [...] The eggs and larvae of some may drift seaward and lead a pelagic existence, but once their wanderlust is satisfied, the juveniles return to nearshore areas where they take up life as their parents did before them.
Use wanderlust when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wanderlust means A strong impulse or longing to travel..
Common synonyms include farsickness, itchy feet, travel bug.
Possible antonyms include Heimweh, homesickness.
Very often we made detours from the main caravan, rejoining it at a given spot, and this spirit of "wanderlust" brought us into a nice quandary one fine day.
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