wanderer
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈwɒndərər/
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vagabundo
- She lives beyond the grace of God... ...a wanderer in the outer darkness.
- a homeless wanderer
The immigrant is a wanderer, A seeker.
- The immigrant is a wanderer, A seeker.
- So over the years, like I was this wanderer, right?
- It was a slow revelation to me, a wanderer and explorer, that real life is not somewhere else.
- You know, go off and be the the, the lone wanderer, not someone saying on a plate, I'm going to hand this to you want it.
- And remember, he has this mark of the wanderer, mark of Cain.
Examples
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My people call themselves, "Wanderers on the Earth," but where this large fire burns, it means that Black Eagle is there, and the wanderers have come to rest.
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For you are the shepherd that shall guide the wanderer through the desert.
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But the greatest thing about me is I'm a wanderer by nature.
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And Demo, here, has chosen the life of a wanderer.
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After all those pages, the boy continued to live as a wanderer and stranger in the land of his birth.
Fiction book (2001) -
With much to learn but nothing to impart, the youth sets off as a wanderer in foreign lands.
Fiction book (1997) -
The immigrant is a wanderer, A seeker.
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For they are wanderers, as the people were once wanderers, and the Pole Star has claimed them before all others.
Fiction book (1998) -
For Sagan, human beings are wanderers and wonderers by nature.
Academic text (1999) -
Leon spent much of her adult life as a wanderer, exploring new places and meeting interesting people.
Synonyms
46
5.9
A person who moves from place to place and has no permanent home or steady job
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4.4
A person who moves from place to place to find food or work
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7.7
A person who has no home and moves from place to place, often begging
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7.0
A person who moves from place to place and has no fixed home
2
4.6
A person who moves often and does not stay in one place
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7.6
A person who travels on foot from place to place
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5.1
A person who moves from place to place without staying long
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8.3
A person who moves from place to place without a home
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9.6
A person who travels from place to place on horseback without a fixed home
Living from place to place without a fixed home
A person who moves from place to place and does not settle
A person who travels without a home and lives by odd jobs
To travel and live without a permanent home, moving from place to place
Antonyms
Compounds
How Settled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wanderer comes from the verb wander, which long ago meant 'to move about' or travel without a fixed home, so people who lived this way were called wanderers. So a wanderer is a person who goes from place to place without a permanent home.