Wayfarer
['weɪfeərə]
Definition
(noun.) a traveler going on a trip.
(noun.) a pedestrian who walks from place to place.
Typist: Psyche--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.
Inputed by Hannibal
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Traveller, passenger, pilgrim, tourist, itinerant.
Editor: Thea
Examples
- The wayfarer smoked his pipe out, put it in his breast, slipped off his great wooden shoes, and lay down on his back on the heap of stones. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The decayed officer, by degrees, came up alongside his fellow-wayfarer, and wished him good evening. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She returned wearily to the thought of Percy Gryce, as a wayfarer picks up a heavy load and toils on after a brief rest. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Tired wayfarer, gird up thy loinslook upward, march onward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The boy who addressed this inquiry to the young wayfarer, was about his own age: but one of the queerest looking boys that Oliver had even seen. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is always a bad sight to see a woman looking out at a weary wayfarer and not letting her in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I don't know: he was as good to me as the well is to the parched wayfarer--as the sun to the shivering jailbird. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Edited by Cheryl