Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Traveling, especially on foot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Journeying; traveling, especially on foot.
Wiktionary
- adj. Travelling, especially on foot.
- adj. Peripatetic.
- n. Travel, especially on foot.
- v. present participle of wayfare.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Traveling; passing; being on a journey.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. traveling especially on foot
- n. traveling (especially on foot)
Etymologies
- From Middle English waifaringe, journeying, from Old English wegfarende : weg, way; see way + farende, present participle of faran, to go on a journey; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And how about that verse about Mary and her "wayfaring"?”
“Anyways, all that to say I found this incredibly cool tool called wayfaring via Miss Ginsu’s website, The Hedonista.”
“Greetings to all wayfaring strangers lost in elaborate egg hunts!”
“The author did his share of college tours and the like, as Ms. Cash recounts, and he admitted that this wayfaring life, which only seemed to exacerbate his alcoholism, sometimes interfered with his writing.”
“Mr. Piailug feared that the powerful pull of Western culture on young Pacific islanders would eventually lead to the extinction of traditional wayfaring, Thomas said Monday.”
“In 1976, Mr. Piailug made international headlines when -- using nothing but nature's clues and the lessons he'd learned from his grandfather, a master navigator schooled in traditional Micronesian wayfaring -- he steered a traditional sailing canoe more than 3,000 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti.”
“Among Pacific peoples, who were fast becoming Westernized, it led to a resurgence of cultural pride and a renewed interest in ancient wayfaring skills.”
“Oh, that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them!”
“Yes, when a wayfaring ex-governor motivates patrons.”
“Yes, when a wayfaring ex-governor motivates patrons. anagranny”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wayfaring’.
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 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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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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for words
based upon per- indo-european root
turnverein, veer, frump, far, per, paramount, paramour, parget, parterre, parvenu, perissodactyl, palanquin and 133 more...
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Words I just like
hobbitry, obfuscate, moribund, bally, idleness, ale, lostwithiel, elfin, spiffing, wayfaring, methinks, abstruse and 123 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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Manhattan Advanced 4
hedge, hew, hoary, homage, husband, idyllic, impasse, imperious, impervious, impetuous, impious, blasphemous and 45 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL W
wallow, wan, wane, wanton, warden, wary, wastrel, watershed, wayfaring, waylay, weave, wend and 10 more...
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vagabondish
gypsy, caravans, nomads, bohemian, Romani, libertine, itinerant, vagrant, migration, diaspora, refugee, expatriate and 8 more...
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simple & useful 16
walter mitty, countervailing, fulcrum, wayfaring, in arrears, calculatingly, versification, fetching, circumfluous, intertwisted, graven image, whammo and 81 more...
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