[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wanderer/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [W](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/w/) / wanderer # wanderer noun (a wanderer, wanderers) «wanderer» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A wanderer is a person or animal that travels from place to place with no fixed home or no clear plan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#m1) 2. A wanderer can also be someone who likes to roam and explore. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#m2) ### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#x1) - Our cat is a wanderer and visits every garden on the street. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#x2) - The ancient Greeks called the planets «wanderers». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#x3) - The wanderer told stories in every village he passed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#x4) - Albatrosses are great wanderers of the southern oceans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#x5) - In the poem, a lonely wanderer walks across the hills. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#x6) - From the remotest days men have been wanderers, and wherever they went their stories accompanied them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/#x7) ### 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 Jewish tradition In the Torah, one who has no settled home, like Cain or the Israelites in the desert. The prophets also use it for a homeless stranger in need, and Hosea says Israel will become "wanderers among the nations" for not listening to God. **Interpretation.** Cain's wandering is read as the result of his murder of Abel. The Israelites' wandering is punishment for their lack of faith. Hosea's words are read as a warning of exile, and Job's care for the needy wanderer is taken as a model of kindness. ### Examples - And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x1) - When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.' (Torah GEN.4.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x2) - If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; (Writings JOB.31.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x3) - Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat. (Prophets ISA.5.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x4) - My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations. (Prophets HOS.9.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/#x5) ### 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). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «wanderer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wanderer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«wanderer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/wanderer.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «wanderer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wanderer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«wanderer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/wanderer.html) on Mova free.