wanderer
part of speech
noun (a wanderer, wanderers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A wanderer is a person or animal that travels from place to place with no fixed home or no clear plan. tree →
2) A wanderer can also be someone who likes to roam and explore. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories, poems and old tales, wanderers are travellers, knights, pilgrims or lonely figures on the road; the word gives a feeling of freedom or loneliness. In science, «planet» comes from a Greek word meaning «wanderer», because planets move across the night sky against the stars. Phrases: «a lonely wanderer», «the wanderer returns».
examples
- The old wanderer slept under the stars. tree →
- Our cat is a wanderer and visits every garden on the street. tree →
- The ancient Greeks called the planets «wanderers». tree →
- The wanderer told stories in every village he passed. tree →
- Albatrosses are great wanderers of the southern oceans. tree →
- In the poem, a lonely wanderer walks across the hills. tree →
- From the remotest days men have been wanderers, and wherever they went their stories accompanied them. tree →
note
Countable: wanderer, wanderers. From «wander» (to walk around slowly without a plan). Do not confuse «wander» (roam) with «wonder» (think about, be amazed) — different spelling and sound: WON-der vs WUN-der. Wolverhampton Wanderers is a football club (a name).
In the corpora
- Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
- My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
- If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wanderer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.