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单词 wander-year
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wander-yearn.

Brit. /ˈwɒndəjɪə/, /ˈwɒndəjəː/, U.S. /ˈwɑndərˌjɪ(ə)r/
Etymology: < wander v., after German Wanderjahr n., the year, or one of the years, spent in travel for the purpose of perfecting one's skill and knowledge between the completion of apprenticeship and settling down to the practice of a trade.
A year of wandering or travel (usually with more or less direct reference to German usage).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > year of
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1880 T. W. Allies Life's Decision i. 6 At Oxford and in my wander-years it was the one subject for which..I not only had no taste, but the most marked repugnance.
1895 Outing 26 331/1 Traveling afoot like any poor student or mere Bursch of an artisan serving his wander~year.
1906 Daily Chron. 26 Oct. 3/3 Off to Philadelphia went Leland, when his wander-years were over, and the necessity of choosing a profession and making a living faced him.
1912 L. Tracy Mirabel's Isl. (1915) vii. 109 David had seen a good deal during his wander years, and he had never before secured such an auditor.
1914 H. M. Vaughan (title) An Australasian Wander-Year.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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