wanderlust
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For decades, several trends have driven a decline in American wanderlust.
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- noun A very strong or irresistible impulse to travel.
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- But the wanderlust was again at work; California was calling—the land of miracle—and printer's ink began to pall. — Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
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For decades, several trends have driven a decline in American wanderlust.
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After that he seemed to grow an inch or two taller, and he lost that careless, shiftless way which comes of what he called the wanderlust bug.
— Thomas Jefferson Brown -
Henry George was getting an education, getting it in the only way any one ever can, or has, or does--getting it by doing But the wanderlust was again at work; California was calling--the land of miracle--and printer's ink began to pall.
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers -
But the wanderlust was again at work; California was calling -- the land of miracle -- and printer's ink began to pall.
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
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- German : wandern, to wander (from Middle High German) + Lust, desire (from Middle High German, from Old High German; see las- in Indo-European roots).
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/ (wŏnˈdər-lŭstˌ)/
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