wayfaring

«wayfaring» in Mova's school dictionary: Travelling, especially on foot from place to place: a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (wayfaring); noun (wayfaring — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Travelling, especially on foot from place to place: a wayfaring man. tree →

2) The act of travelling on foot (old). tree →

sense in the lessons

An old and poetic word. In The Wind in the Willows chapter «Wayfarers All», the Sea Rat, a wayfaring rat, tells Water Rat about faraway ports and almost tempts him to leave the river; Mole has to hold him back. Old songs talk of «a poor wayfaring stranger». A wayfarer is a traveller. The wayfaring tree is a real English shrub growing by old paths.

examples

• The wayfaring Sea Rat told stories of distant lands. tree →
• «Wayfarers All» is a chapter in The Wind in the Willows. tree →
• The wayfaring man rested by the road. tree →
• Swallows feel the wayfaring urge in autumn. tree →
• The old song tells of a wayfaring stranger. tree →
• The wayfaring tree grows along chalky lanes. tree →
• A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. tree →

note

Old-fashioned; noun for the person: «wayfarer». Today say «travelling».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wayfaring» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.