wanderer
/ˈwɑndəɹɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground. There are several varieties of him. The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all. On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books. He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth."
- "She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wanderere
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɑndəɹɚ/
- British English: /ˈwɒndəɹə/