Definition of WANDERER

wanderer

Plural: wanderers

Noun

  • A person who travels or roams without a specific home.
  • someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
  • 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
  • One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
  • Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
  • The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

Examples

  • The lone WANDERER of the Scrabble board often finds unusual letter combinations.

Origin / 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”).

Scrabble Score: 12

wanderer: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
wanderer: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wanderer: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

wanderer: valid Words With Friends Word