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单词 wanderer
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wanderern.

Brit. /ˈwɒnd(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈwɑnd(ə)rər/
Forms: Also Middle English wanderare, 1500s Scottish wandirer, 1500s wandreer, 1500s–1600s wandrer, wand'rer.
Etymology: < wander v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. A person or thing that is wandering, or that has long wandered (in various senses of the verb); one that is of roving habit or nature. Also figurative or in figurative context.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer
striker1393
roamerc1400
wandererc1440
whirlerc1440
gangrela1450
fluttererc1450
straggler1530
gadlinga1542
ranger1560
rover1568
fugitive1570
rangler1575
fleeter1581
extravagant1583
scatterling1590
vagranta1592
rambler1624
erratic1669
stravaiger1821
multivagant1895
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 515/1 Wanderare, vagus, vaga, vacabundus, profugus.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iii. iii. sig. Pij Seynge that she [sc. Fortune] is but a wandrer, that strayeth from place to place lyke a vacabunde.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 44 The wrathfull Skies gallow, the very wanderer of the Darke, and makes them keepe their caues. View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbb3v/2 Am I for this forsaken? a new love chosen, And my affections, like my fortunes wanderers?
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 495. ¶8 Besides, the whole People is now a Race of such Merchants as are Wanderers by Profession.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Sigh 20 In distant climes to roam, A wanderer from my native home.
1798 W. Wordsworth Lines Tintern Abbey in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 204 O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the wood.
1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 116 Gipsies and other wanderers pitch their tents around it in the nutting season.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iii. 114 The Catholic Church was in the first instance a wanderer on the earth, and had nothing to attach her to its soil.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 709 He had died as he had lived, an exile and a wanderer.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxx. 263 She don't know what she means. She's an idiot, a wanderer in her mind.
1914 A. S. Woodward Guide Fossil Man Brit. Mus. (1915) 3 Such characteristic wanderers over the plains as horses, cattle, antelopes, deer and lions.
b. as tr. Latin planēta or Greek πλανήτης: A wandering star, planet.
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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy
planetc1300
erratic starc1374
erring starc1449
seven starsc1530
straying star1585
wanderer1615
erratical1647
erratic1715
1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar i. i. sig. B Your patron Mercury in his mysterious character, Holds all the markes of th' other wanderers.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Little Bartas in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 769 The Sun..Him, just betwixt Six Wand'rers hast Thou plaç't, Which prance about Him with vnequall haste.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 117 Even Planets or Wanderers keep course, and station.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 191 The worlds they call wanderers rolling on high, That enlighten the earth and enliven the sky.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 536 And God made the sun and moon and five other wanderers, as they are called.
c. Historical. (See quot. 1903.) Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [noun] > Scottish Presbyterian > one adhering to > following dispossessed minister
wanderera1700
a1700 A. Shields Life J. Renwick (1724) 56 So many Forces, Foot, Horse and Dragoons, habitually flashed in Blood, being poured into all the Parts of the Country, where the Wanderers were most numerous.
1728 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden (ed. 3) 120 Foot and Horse of the Enemy being searching for Wanderers, as they were then called.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 124 The Wanderer, to give Burley a title which was often conferred on his sect, began to make his horse ready.
1903 Harbottle Dict. Hist. Allusions 275 Wanderers, the Covenanters who left their homes to follow their dispossessed ministers in 1669 were so called.
2. Zoology.
a. Used as translation of various modern Latin terms of classification; a bird of the group Vagatores in Macgillivray's system; one of the wandering spiders (Vacabundæ).
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > migratory bird
summer bird1575
passenger1579
bird of passage1717
refugee1764
migrant1768
migrater1770
migrator1836
wanderer1837
traveller1874
passage bird1878
passage migrant1932
1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 481 That very important tribe of birds to which the name of Vagatores or Wanderers may be applied.
b. A species of dragon fly.
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1926 Nat. Hist. Oxf. Distr. 169 The ‘wanderer’, Libellula quadrimaculata Linn., has occurred at Shotover.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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