Wanderer

Definition: Wanderer

Wanderer

Noun

1. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.

Date "wanderer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Wanderer

Synonyms: bird of passage (n), roamer (n), rover (n). (additional references)

The Wanderer is a historic car brand, which has merged into what now is Audi, a division of VAG.

The Wanderer is also the title of a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber about a wandering planet that enters the Earth's solar system.

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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Traveler	Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Wanderer

English words defined with "wanderer": drifter ♦ floater ♦ genus Pedionomus ♦ Houseless ♦ Ishmaelite ♦ Pedionomus, plain wanderer ♦ vagrant, Varier. (references)

Specialty definitions using "wanderer": Manon Lescaut ♦ Nicean Barks ♦ Westmoreland. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Wanderer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (backpacker, hiker, migrant, rambler, ramblers, traveler, Walker, wanderer, wayfarer, wayfarers).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere. (Vertigo; writing credit: Pierre Boileau; Thomas Narcejac) That doesn't matter at all! I don't care what you were! When we first met, I met you as a wanderer, not as a manslayer! (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; M�ns Gahrton)
Lyrics	Cause I'm a wanderer (THE WANDERER; performing artist: Donna Summer) I'm a wanderer (THE WANDERER; performing artist: Donna Summer) Just a wanderer (THE WANDERER; performing artist: Donna Summer) Oh yes, I'm a wanderer (THE WANDERER; performing artist: Donna Summer)
Movie/TV Titles	Der Fröhliche Wanderer (1955) Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945) The Wanderer (1925) Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924) The Little Wanderer (1920)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	"Schlag nach!" fèur Wanderer und Bergsteiger : [rund 2500 Stichwèorter zu Ausrèustung, Tourenplanung u. Erste Hilfe, Wandergebiete, Klettertechnik, Ski-, Rad- u. Wasserwandern, Wetter, Flora u. Fauna u.v.a.] (reference) A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces (reference) Good-Bye, Midnight Wanderer (Thoroughbred: Ashleigh, 4) (reference) Melmoth the Wanderer (reference) Taran Wanderer (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	F Wanderer (reference) Wanderer of the Wasteland (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Return of the Wanderer (reference) The Happy Wanderer (reference) Wanderer (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Str. New Island Wanderer landing at the Frontenac, Round Island, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.		The wanderer.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. Bridges, hotel, waterfall, train and Gettysburg.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour	Carroll, Lewis	All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He had been proscribed, a wanderer, poor.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Wanderer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.16% of the time. "Wanderer" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.16%	47	49,740
Adjective (comparative)	5.88%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	1.96%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	51	N/A

Expression using "wanderer": plain wanderer. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "wanderer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vagabond (bum, fugitive, landloper, loafer, prowler, rascal, rover, scamp, vagabond), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wandering). (various references)

Arabic		‏متسكع (gadabout, gadder, idler, loafer, loiterer, lounger, rambler), ‏المتشرد (canter, hobo, rogue, straggler, tramp, truant, vagabond, vagrant, wastrel), ‏الهائم, ‏التائه, ‏الجوال (prowler, ranger, tourist, traveler, traveller, vagrant, wayfarer). (various references)

Bulgarian		странник (peripatetic, pilgrim, stranger, unco), скитник (bum, casual, derelict, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), пътешественик (explorer, traveler, traveller). (various references)

Chinese		漂泊 (drifter), 流浪者 (rover, vagabond, vagrant), 流浪汉. (various references)

Czech		tulák (beachcomber, dosser, drifter, gadabout, hobo, itinerant, landloper, landraker, prowler, rambler, Ranger, rogue, rover, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wayfarer), poutník (pilgrim, wayfarer), koèovník (nomad), cestovatel (explorer, traveler, traveller, voyager). (various references)

Danish		slettevandrer (plains wanderer). (various references)

Dutch		trapvechtkwartel (plains wanderer). (various references)

Farsi		سیار (Ambulatory, Itinerant, Migrant, Rover), سرگردان (Adrift, Astray, Discursive, Erratic, Gadabout, Rambler, Strafe, Straggle, Stray), اواره (Adrift, Gadabout, Immigrant, Straggle, Tramp). (various references)

Finnish		kulkija (vagabond). (various references)

French		vagabond (wandering), errant (wandering). (various references)

German		Wanderer (backpacker, hiker, migrant, rambler, ramblers, traveler, Walker, wayfarer, wayfarers). (various references)

Greek		περιπλανώμενοσ (astray, rambler, roamer, stray, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Hebrew		משוטט (gadabout, globetrotter, hiker, prowler, rambler, rambling, stroller, vagabond, vagrant), תוע�" (errant, stray, vagabond, vagrant, wandering), אורח פורח (hobo, tramp, vagabond), �"לך (go, wayfarer), � ו�"�" (errant, globetrotter, itinerant, migrant, migratory, rover, wayfarer), � ו�" (drifter, nomad, nomadic, tramp, vagabond), � ע ו� �" (fugitive, maverick, migrant, nomad, rover, tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Hungarian		vándor (errant, itinerant, migrant, roamer, rover, strayer, wayfarer), csavargó (beat, bum, corner-man, gadabout, hobo, hoodlum, jockey, knockabout, landloper, landlouper, layabout, loiterer, lowlife, outcast, prowler, ranger, roamer, rogue, rover, runabout, runagate, to go for a tramp, tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Indonesian		petualang (adventurer, gadabout, vagabond, voyager), pengembara (carpetbagger, errant, gadabout, nomad, ramble, vagabond, vagrant, voyager), kelana (adventurer, nomad, rover). (various references)

Italian		vagabondo (gadabout, hobo, Idler, loafer, rambler, rolling stone, rover, scouring, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wandering), pellegrino (desert locust, pilgrim). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遊子 (traveller), 風来坊 (capricious person, hobo, vagabond), 旅烏 (stranger), 渡り者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たびがらす (stranger), ふうらいぼう (capricious person, hobo, vagabond), わたりもの, ゆうし (ambition, an official, another child considered as one's own, brave man, brave warrior, financing, gallant figure, grieving, hero, historical, idle funds or capital, loan, nephew, recorded in history, sympathizer, traveller, voluntary, volunteer). (various references)

Manx		wandreilagh (wandering), rouailtagh (itinerant, nomad, nomadic, ranger, roamer, roaming, rover, roving, stroller, wandering). (various references)

Pig Latin		andererway

Portuguese		viajante (passenger seat, peripheral, pilgrimage, rider, ring traveller, traveler, traveller, viator, voyager, wayfarer, way-worn), vagabundo (bum, cornerman, downcast, gadabout, gad-fly, hobo, landlord, landlubber, Lea, maverick, planetoid, prowler, rambling, Ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wandering, wastrel, Woodward). (various references)

Romanian		rãtãcitor (errant, ranging, runabout, vagrant, wandering), pribeag (fugitive, solitary, vagrant, wandering), hoinar (dilly dally, gadabout, rambler, rambling, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wandering). (various references)

Russian		странник (nomad, pilgrim, wayfarer). (various references)

Scottish		falbhanach, annrach, � nrach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skitnica (bum, drifter, hobo, landloper, landlouper, larrikin, loafer, runagate, sundowner, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), lutalica (rambler, rover, straggler). (various references)

Spanish		viajero (a traveler, journeyman, rider, traveler, traveller, voyager), vagabundo (down and out, drifter, erring, gipsy, gypsy, outcast, piker, Ranger, rover, runagate, tramp, vagabond, vagrant), nómada (nomad, nomadic, wandering), mujer errante, hombre errante. (various references)

Swedish		vandringsman, vandrare (hiker, rambler, Ranger, rover, walker). (various references)

Turkish		gezginci (peripatetic, rover, roving, stroller), gezgin (passenger, traveler, traveller, voyager, widely traveled), göçebe (immigrant, migratory, nomad, roving, vagrant, wandering), avare (dawdler, dosser, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, idled, rover, straggler, straggling, straggly, strayed, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, yob). (various references)

Turkmen		segezdan (vagabond). (various references)

Ukranian		комета (comet), мандрівник (explorer, nomad, peripatetic, pilgrim, traveller, vagrant, voyager, wayfarer), подорожній. (various references)

Vietnamese		người nay đây mai đó con vật lạc đ� n người lầm đường lạc lối, người đi lang thang (layabout). (various references)

Welsh		crwydrwr (rover). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	exules, exulibus, Pedionomus torquatus, peregrinante, peregrinantes, peregrinus. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	errier. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Anhr planwmenoV ex odou dikaiosunhV en sunagwgh gigantwn anapausetai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Vir qui erraverit a via doctrinae in coetu gigantum commorabitur
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The man that erreth fro the weie of doctrine, in the felashipe of ieauntis shal wone.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 21, Verse 16
Cebuano	¶ Ang tawo nga nagasaagsaag gikan sa dalan sa pagsabut Magapahulay sa katilingban sa mga minatay.
Chinese	迷離通 �" �" 路的、必住在陰魂的會中。
Croatian	Èovjek koji skreæe s puta razbora poèivat æe u zboru mrtvaèkom.
Danish	Den, der farer vild fra Kløgtens Vej, skal havne i Skyggers Forsamling.
Dutch	Een mens, die van den weg des verstands afdwaalt, zal in de gemeente der doden rusten.
Finnish	Ihminen, joka eksyy taidon tieltä, joutuu lepäämään haamujen seuraan.
French	L`homme qui s`écarte du chemin de la sagesse Reposera dans l`assemblée des morts.
German	Ein Mensch, der vom Wege der Klugheit irrt, wird bleiben in der Toten Gemeinde.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang yang tidak mengikuti cara hidup yang berbudi, pasti akan sampai di dunia orang mati.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Orang yang melarat dari pada jalan akal budi itu kelak turun ke dalam alam barzakh.
Italian	L'uomo che si scosta dalla via della saggezza, riposer� nell'assemblea delle ombre dei morti.
Maori	¶ Ko te tangata e kotiti ke ana i te huarahi o te mahara, ka noho ia i te whakaminenga o nga tupapaku.
Norwegian	Det menneske som forviller sig fra klokskaps vei, skal havne blandt dødningene.
Portuguese	O homem que anda desviado do caminho do entendimento repousará na congregação dos mortos.
Rumanian	Omul care se abate dela calea knyelepciunii, se va odihni kn adunarea celor moryi. -
Russian	юЕМПЧЕЛ, У�'ЙЧЫЙКУС У � ХФЙ ТБЪХНБ, ЧП�"ЧПТЙФУС Ч УП�'ТБОЙЙ НЕТФЧЕ�"ПЧ.
Spanish	El hombre que se desvía del camino del entendimiento irá a parar en la compañía de los muertos.
Swedish	Den människa som far vilse ifrån förståndets väg, hon hamnar i skuggornas krets.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wanderer": wanderers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Wanderer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Vandermeer, Waldersee, Wamwere, wanserver. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "wanderer" (pronounced wÄ"nderer)
4	-n d er er	hinderer, launderer.
3	-d er er	embroiderer, murderer.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-r-w"
	-1 letter: redrawn, redware.
	-2 letters: darner, dearer, deewan, drawee, drawer, earned, earner, endear, errand, neared, nearer, reader, reared, redear, redraw, redrew, reearn, render, reread, reward, wander, warden, warder, warned, warner, warred, warren, weaned, weaner, wearer.
	-3 letters: awned, darer, dawen, denar, dewan, dewar, drawn, drear, eared, ender, erred, newer, ranee, rared, rawer, redan, renew, reran, rewan.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-r-w"
	+1 letter: prewarned, underwear, wanderers.
	+2 letters: dinnerware, forewarned, greensward, newsreader, underwater, unrewarded, wardenries.
	+3 letters: breadwinner, dinnerwares, greenswards, newsreaders, windbreaker.
	+4 letters: breadwinners, henceforward, underdrawers, windbreakers.
	+5 letters: cordwaineries, forwardnesses, frowardnesses, thenceforward.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 6E 64 65 72 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
dark wanderer	285	groo the wanderer	8
the wanderer	254	wycombe wanderer	8
wolverhampton wanderer	117	bolton wanderer fc	8
trio wanderer	103	wolverhampton wanderer football club	7
bolton wanderer	61	inn wanderer	6
home for little wanderer the	35	city halifax wanderer	6
trailer wanderer	22	dark interracial wanderer	6
happy wanderer	21	catholic wanderer	6
trailer travel wanderer	21	racer tokyo wanderer xtreme zero	6
dark story wanderer	19	song of the wanderer	6
rv wanderer	17	england home little new wanderer	6
lyrics wanderer	16	newspaper wanderer	6
thor wanderer	16	catholic newspaper wanderer	6
rest wanderer	15	extreme racer tokyo wanderer	6
the wanderer the movie	13	wagon wanderer	5
extreme racer tokyo wanderer zero	13	by thor wanderer	5
mp3 wanderer	12	montevideo wanderer	5
wolverhampton wanderer fc	10	bolton wanderer football club	5
dark wanderer cheating wife	9	dion wanderer	4
santiago wanderer	9	india wanderer	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Wanderer

Definition: Wanderer

Wanderer

Noun

Synonyms: Wanderer

Specialty Definition: Wanderer

Synonyms within Context: Wanderer

Traveler

Crosswords: Wanderer

Modern Usage: Wanderer

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Use in Literature: Wanderer

Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Usage Frequency: Wanderer

Expression: Wanderer

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wanderer

Modern Translations: Wanderer

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Ancestral Language Translations: Wanderer

Bible Trace: Wanderer

Matched Bible Translations: Wanderer

Derivations & Misspellings: Wanderer

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Wanderer"

Anagrams: Wanderer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Wanderer

57 61 6E 64 65 72 65 72

.--. .- -. -.. . .-. . .-.

01010111 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110010

&#87 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#114

0057 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072 0065 0072

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Computer Images:
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