wanderer

CEFRB1

/wˈɑndərər/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who travels or moves around without a fixed plan.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.

Examples

  • "The Wanderer" is a book written by Fritz Leiber in 1963.

  • I am just a wanderer, seeking purity of the soul.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

  2. The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).