Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wanderer
IPA transcription: [w'ɑndɚɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wanderer, roamer, rover, bird_of_passage
    Meaning: someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
Usage examples
  • I, the little houseless wanderer through the streets and alleys of New York?
  • I am flying to escape death at their hands, and am thus doomed to be a wanderer on the face of the earth.
  • "Mother of God," the wanderer said, "I am but a common king, Nor will I ask what saints may ask, To see a secret thing.
  • We passed the night at the old house, which, freed from the presence of the Heeps, seemed purged of a disease; and I lay in my old room, like a shipwrecked wanderer come home.
  • When Bacchus grew up he discovered the culture of the vine and the mode of extracting its precious juice; but Juno struck him with madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth.
  • So Frithiof became an exile, and a wanderer on the face of the earth. For many years he lived the life of a pirate or viking, exacting tribute from other ships or sacking them if they would not pay tribute; for this occupation in the days of Frithiof was considered wholly respectable.
  • If one forlorn wanderer then pacing the dark streets, could have heard her innocent disclosure, and could have seen the drops of pity kissed away by her husband from the soft blue eyes so loving of that husband, he might have cried to the night--and the words would not have parted from his lips for the first time--
  • Their eyes of compassion, of real sentimental affection, will be involuntarily extended after them, in their greatest excesses of iniquity; and those fine filaments of consanguinity, which gently entwine themselves around the heart where filial love and parental care is equal, will be lengthened, and enlarged to cords seemingly of sufficient strength to reach and reclaim the wanderer.