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.
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”
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