wanderer

See also: Wanderer

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒndəɹə/

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Noun

wanderer (plural wanderers)

1. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
   • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:

     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.

2. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
3. (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:vagabond

Derived terms

• lesser wanderer
• plains-wanderer

 

Translations

one who wanders

• Arabic: هَائِم (hāʔim)
• Armenian: թափառական (hy) (tʻapʻaṙakan)
• Bulgarian: скитник (bg) m (skitnik), странник (bg) m (strannik)
• Catalan: rodamón (ca) m, nòmada (ca) m or f
• Coptic: ⲥⲁⲣⲁⲕⲱϯ m (sarakōti)
• Czech: tulák (cs) m, nomád m
• Dutch: wandelaar (nl) m, dwaler, zwermer (nl) m, doler (nl) m
• Finnish: kuljeksija (fi), kulkuri (fi)
• French: vagabond (fr), nomade (fr), errant (fr), vagant (fr)
• Galician: leirán, vaganao , vagaceiro, vadío, moinante (gl), lorán, galloufeiro, gandaieiro, leilán, calaceiro (gl), vagamundo, vagabundo, vanadante
• Georgian: მოხეტიალე (ka) (moxeṭiale), მაწანწალა (mac̣anc̣ala)
• German: Wanderer (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: πλανήτης m (planḗtēs)

• Hebrew: נודד (nodéd)
• Hungarian: vándor (hu)
• Ingrian: hulkkuri
• Irish: rianaí m
• Italian: vagabondo (it), girovago (it), vagante (it), errante (it), ramingo (it), nomade (it), errabondo (it)
• Japanese: 放浪者 (ja) (hōrōsha)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاوارە (ckb) (aware)

• Latin: errō (la) m
• Macedonian: та́лкач m (tálkač), ски́тник m (skítnik)
• Maori: murare
• Old English: wandrere m
• Persian: سرگردان (fa) (sargardân)
• Plautdietsch: Waundra m
• Polish: wędrowiec (pl) m, nomada (pl) m, tułacz (pl), włóczęga (pl), włóczykij (pl), łazik (pl), wałęga, łazęga (pl)
• Portuguese: vagante (pt) m or f, vagabundo (pt) m, vagabunda (pt) f, nômade (pt) m
• Russian: путеше́ственник (ru) (putešéstvennik), стра́нник (ru) m (stránnik)
• Spanish: vagabundo (es) m, nómada (es) f
• Swedish: vandrare (sv) c, vandringsman (sv) c
• Turkish: gezgin (tr)
• Welsh: crwydryn, crwydriaid pl

Anagrams

• nerdwear, warrened, rewarned