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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wanderer
noun
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▪ Flagellants are crazed wanderers obsessed with the doom of the world.
▪ She was a homeless wanderer until tiny Delos alone of all places on earth consented to receive her.
▪ Such sightings prove that those ancient wanderers actually lived.
▪ Three other wanderers, not quite so dazed, allowed Billy to tag along.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wanderer

Wanderer \Wan"der*er\, n. One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

Wiktionary
wanderer

n. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

WordNet
wanderer
  1. n. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life [syn: roamer, rover, bird of passage]

  2. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine [syn: spider]

Wikipedia
Wanderer (company)

Wanderer was a German manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, vans and other machinery. Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896 by Johann Baptist Winklhofer und Richard Adolf Jaenicke, the company used the Wanderer brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.

Wanderer

Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to:

  • Itinerant people, who wander from place to place with no permanent home, or are vagrant

• A homeless man or woman who trolls dating websites for lonely people in order to find a free place to stay

  • Wanderer butterflies, certain wide-ranging brush-footed butterflies:
    • Bematistes aganice, a species of tropical Africa
    • Danaus plexippus (Monarch), a species of the Americas
    • Pareronia, a genus of tropical Asia
  • Wanderer (car), a German automobile manufacturer in the interwar period
  • The Wanderer, an alternate name for the Wandering Jew
  • The Wanderer (newspaper), a Catholic national weekly based in Minnesota
  • The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper), a weekly newspaper in southeastern Massachusetts
  • World Wide Web Wanderer, an early web crawler
  • Wanderer (AROS), a user interface based on Zune widget toolkit
  • Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers), a group of Russian artists
  • A Dark Room Aliens who destroyed A Barren World. The Player is a Wanderer, as is the Builder and everyone in the Player's village
Wanderer (sailing dinghy)

The Wanderer is a 14 foot (4.3 metres = 14.1 feet) Fibreglass hull Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor. One of the main objectives of the design was to produce a robust safe and versatile dinghy that could be used for knockabout day sailing and cruising as well as racing, but was light enough to be handled ashore.

On the water the boat can be recognised by its Sail logo of a white W in a blue circular background. Over 1600 boats have been produced. It should not be confused with its larger cousin, the Wayfarer (dinghy), which also sports a "W".

Usage examples of "wanderer".

Sometimes we are fused with Cervantes, but more often we are invisible wanderers who accompany the sublime pair in their adventures and debacles.

It may be a world captured from afara lonely wanderer cast off from some other star, captured by the Sun after millions of years of drifting lightless through space.

Instead of centuries, my fellow wanderers had come to command cohorts, sturdy and strong, armed with spear, bow and sword, protected by shields of stout wood and hide, their bodies covered by thickly padded cloth armor, a good substitute for metal when used only against atlatl darts.

To gratify this wish several knights were sent in search of the wanderer, and when they finally found him they bade him come to court.

For in this grievous calamity, this distressing bereavement, the best consolation and solace that the spiritual souls could offer is to dedicate themselves to the service of the Cause, to diffuse widely the sweet savours of holiness, to become wanderers in the path of that heavenly Best-Beloved, to let their whole beings burn and melt, and be enkindled with the fire of His love.

Thou seest me enraptured and attracted toward Thy glorious kingdom, enkindled with the fire of Thy love amongst mankind, a herald of Thy kingdom in these vast and spacious lands, severed from aught else save Thee, relying on Thee, abandoning rest and comfort, remote from my native home, a wanderer in these regions, a stranger fallen upon the ground, humble before Thine exalted Threshold, submissive toward the heaven of Thine omnipotent glory, supplicating Thee in the dead of night and at the break of dawn, entreating and invoking Thee at morn and at eventide to graciously aid me to serve Thy Cause, to spread abroad Thy Teachings and to exalt Thy Word throughout the East and the West.

You were a wanderer in my name and wherever you went you brought the settled folk a little homesickness for freedom.

Batbaian, a skillful jackleg tailor, sewed scraped sheepskins together into cloaks the two wanderers wore over their greatcoats.

Did not the very lapwing, as she tumbled, softly wailing, before him, as she did years ago, seem to welcome the wanderer home in the name of heaven?

The positions were entirely different, he argued, angrily addressing the troublesome inward monitor that every now and then tormented him,--there was no resemblance whatever between himself, the unknown, unfamed wanderer in a strange land, and the brilliant Sah-luma, chosen Poet Laureate of the realm!

Their names and stories had come down from mouth to mouth - Atta, the Seeker - the twins, Nurdok and Maltura - the Three Wanderers, Mulat, Mutaka, Maldruk.

It was only at such gatherings as these that Neddy ever experienced the full enjoyments of life, for he was a homeless wanderer from place to place.

On emerging from the great Elgumi forest, we, still steering northwards, in accordance with the information Mr Mackenzie had collected from the unfortunate wanderer who reached him only to die so tragically, struck the base in due course of the large lake, called Laga by the natives, which is about fifty miles long by twenty broad, and of which, it may be remembered, he made mention.

I love--the lone wanderer will still unfurl his sail, and clasp the tiller--and, still obeying the breezes of heaven, for ever round another and another promontory, anchoring in another and another bay, still ploughing seedless ocean, leaving behind the verdant land of native Europe, adown the tawny shore of Africa, having weathered the fierce seas of the Cape, I may moor my worn skiff in a creek, shaded by spicy groves of the odorous islands of the far Indian ocean.

Strangest of all, this was agreed upon by Suni and Shiite, by Kurd and Afghani, by purest Circassian and darkest Egyptian, by Bedouin wanderer and Lebanese shopkeeper.