Wanderer Meaning
/ˈwɑndəɹɚ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
nounsomeone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
Sentence Examples
I am just a wanderer, seeking purity of the soul.
"The Wanderer" is a book written by Fritz Leiber in 1963.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The old ____ wandered from place to place with no permanent home.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He was a true ____, travelling from one country to another with nothing but a small backpack and a map today.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
"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."
— 1898, Leon H. Vincent, The Bibliotaph And Other People:
"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."
— 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old ____ wandered from place to place with no permanent home.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He was a true ____, travelling from one country to another with nothing but a small backpack and a map today.