Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An American lycænid butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, wide-spread in the United States east of Kansas. Its larvæ feed upon plant-lice on alder.
- n. One who or that which wanders; one who roams about, having no home or certain place of abode; also, one who strays from the path of duty.
- n. plural In Arachnida, specifically, the wandering as distinguished from the sedentary spiders; the vagabonds. See Vagabundæ.
Wiktionary
- n. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
- n. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
Examples
“Riese, a seemingly random wanderer, is being hunted by a terrifying religious cult, The Sect.”
“The wanderer from the West stands awestruck amongst them, filled with vague memories of the cradle of his race, saying, "This did I do some thousands of years ago; thus did I lie in wait for mine enemy; so thought I and so acted I in the beginning of Time.”
“The Rentfrow ammunition was exhausted for a minute, and the wanderer from the Italian coast once more slipped the cog to "The Holy City" -- a war hymn in slow time.”
“So ended the war of the usurpers; and the last and most doubtful of all the usurpers, a wanderer from the Welsh marches, a knight from nowhere, found the crown of England under a bush of thorn.”
“OUR wanderer is returned, my dear, and in such spirits as you can't conceive: he passed yesterday with us; he likes to have us to himself, and he had yesterday; we walked à trio in the wood, and were foolish; I have not passed so agreable a day since I came to”
“Wazirs that I have been a wanderer from the right way, drowned in ignorance, opposed to admonition, a breaker of facts and promises and a gainsayer of good counsellors; and the cause of all this was my being fooled by these women and the wiles whereby they beset me and the glozing lure of their speech, whereby they seduced me to sin and my acceptance of this, for that I deemed the words of them true and loyal counsel, by reason of their sweetness and softness; but lo, and behold! they were deadly poison.”
“They recall the wanderer to a sense of his Duty, tho he has strayed many many times.”
“The time of holiday reading and holiday rambling has come to its end; and a voice calls the wanderer back to more sedate and methodical pursuits.”
“It contained all that Christian principle and sisterly affection could dictate to recall a wanderer home, and it went to my heart.”
“So I promptly wired that hotel, only to learn that my titled wanderer might be found in San Francisco, at the Hotel St. Francis.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wanderer’.
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-erer
words that finish with a double er: an usual list of doers
ricerer, ponderer, echoerer, eerierer, elderer, eyelinerer, alterer, blusterer, chatterer, offerer, answerer, bickerer and 100 more...
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Shadowtailed Riverhorse
Etymology guessing game; the words are entered as the sum of their root meanings. Let the games begin!
little mouse, little sheath, handiwork, hairy cat, sea pig, the eye of the day, suckling, clothes bag, wild ass, jungle man, little sword, water vessel and 107 more...
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on the road again
waifs and estrays, errant, stray, prodigal, mendicant, tripper, trekker, trouper, tourist, adventurer, jet-setter, voyager and 59 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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It's a Lepidopteran
Names of butterflies and moths that I find interesting, and terms associated with citizens of Lepidoptera.
Here are elfins, satyrs and wood-nymphs ruled by some sovereign such as an em...clearwing, whitespot, miller, underwing, lettuce-shark, owlet, gamma, fanfoot, mason moth, mought, goldtail, noctuid and 132 more...
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practice 2
100 words
momentous, domicile, adroit, ingenious, dexterous, genius, brevity, decorum, propriety, dignity, err, blunder and 91 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (W)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
wail, waistcoat, wales, wallflower, wand, wandering, wanderlust, waning, ward, wardrobe, warp, wassail and 97 more...
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Behr Paint Colors
Names used for Behr Paints in spring of 2008. I'm curious to see if Behr gives the same colors different names in other years, so I've tagged each color with its Behr product number. It turns out t...
billowy clouds, soft lace, victorian pearl, china cup, soft muslin, bleached shell, belgian cream, chamois cloth, natural linen, popped corn, divine pleasure, vanilla delight and 283 more...
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Cellar Door
It's the way the letters combine to form an beautiful whole and the way its sound tickles the ear.
capricious, sigh, jest, psyche, elf, wither, languish, wane, fade, caustic, pithy, epicene and 121 more...
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picaresque
An assortment of ruffians, villains and scamps.
(who are remarkably endearing for all they are bad seeds...)ruffian, villain, scamp, imp, fiend, bastard, cad, brute, desperado, miscreant, knave, devil and 62 more...
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beautiful words.
the, known, universe, connection, touch, possibility, cataclysm, revolution, circumvolution, evolution, logic, winter and 71 more...
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Travelling People
traveller, voyager, vagrant, tramp, nomad, gypsy, hitchhiker, itinerant, pilgrim, vagabond, drifter, wayfarer and 18 more...
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personas
artist, groaner, donor, figure, moaner, owner, quitter, paper-maker, fascinator, writer, guitarist, songsmith and 22 more...
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tell your story walking
Words of travel.
traveller, foreign, portmanteau, roam, wanderer, motorcar, motorbike, railway, aeroplane, voyage, caravan, transcontinental
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who we were
dilettante, wanderer, violinist, dreamer, flautist, traveller
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wanderer.
oroboros Yep, it's planet. Good going. Aug 5, 2009
Telofy I hope it's planet; planet is kewl. :-) Aug 5, 2009
sionnach Planet? Aug 4, 2009
hernesheir Arcturus, the "wanderer star". Peregrino, nomad. Aug 4, 2009
Telofy Some thesaurus-dictionary cross-referencing yields vagrant and vagabond. Is that licit or does it already verge on cheating? Aug 4, 2009
oroboros Nope. Try again. This one's not all that hard, but one never knows about such things, do one? :) Aug 4, 2009
Telofy Viator? Aug 4, 2009