wayfaring
/ˈweɪˌfɛːrɪŋ
/literary
adjective
(Of a person) travelling on foot: a wayfaring stranger...
- Government designs statutes that gently steer the wayfaring press away from trampling on individual privacy.
- Grace Ruga was 20 years old and seven months pregnant that day in June when the wayfaring kittens arrived at her condo.
- One might say that this wayfaring lad is a nephew of the wanderer in Schubert's Winter Journey '.
Synonyms
travelling, journeying, walking, hiking, rambling, touring;
wandering, roaming, roving, drifting, nomadic, itinerant, peripatetic, migratory, migrating, floating, on the move/go/wing
noun [mass noun]
The action of travelling by foot.We had, as a tribe, sat in a circle and told the harrowing stories of our wayfaring members and I think we would never be the same....
- The title track, ‘I am a poor wayfaring stranger’, in particular is beautiful, his sensitive use of single strings recalling Luciano Berio's economical folksong arrangements.
- Her father had been a wayfaring Dutch merchant from Antwerp.