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”).
Synonyms
bird of passage, roamer, rover, spider, ambler, flaneur, gadling, itinerant, nomad, peregrinator, rambler, saunterer, straggler, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, walke-street, wanderer
Scrabble Score: 12
wanderer: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwanderer: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wanderer: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary