wanderer

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Wanderer^¹

noun Wanderers

someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.

wanderer^²

/ˈwɑndəɹɚ/ US
/ˈwɒndəɹə/ UK

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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”).

noun wanderers

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

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: rover, roamer, nomad, stray, wayworn, wanderess, inwanderer, wanderluster, varier, wagoner, wagonner, meanderer, wayfarer, wing, weekender, saddler

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noun one who wanders

Español	vagabundo, nómada, patiperro, pataiperro
日本語	放浪者 hōrōsha
Português	vagante, vagabundo, vagabunda, nômade
Français	vagabond, nomade, errant, vagant
Deutsch	Wanderer
Italiano	vagabondo, girovago, vagante, errante, ramingo, nomade
Русский	путеше́ственник putešéstvennik, стра́нник stránnik
العربية	هَائِم hāʔim
עברית	נודד nodéd

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@misc{wanderer_2026,
  title = {wanderer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wanderer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}