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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”).
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɒndəɹə/
wanderer (plural wanderers)
- 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.
- Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
- (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
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:
- 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