Wanderer
noun1
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
wanderer
nounalso spelled WandererUS /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/ · UK /ˈwɒndəɹə/
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”).
1
One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
- 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.1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
- The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground. There are several varieties of him. The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all. On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books. He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth.1898, Leon H. Vincent, The Bibliotaph And Other People:
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- She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:
2
Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
3
Colloquial The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
- Synonyms
- vagabond, ambler, flaneur, gadling, itinerant, nomad, peregrinator, rambler, rover, saunterer, straggler, stroller, vagrant, walke-street, wanderer
- Derived terms
- lesser wanderer, plains-wanderer
- Hypernyms
- traveller