WAYFARER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wayfarer mean? 

• WAYFARER (noun)
  The noun WAYFARER has 2 senses:

1. a pedestrian who walks from place to place

2. a traveler going on a trip

  Familiarity information: WAYFARER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAYFARER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pedestrian who walks from place to place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("wayfarer" is a kind of...):

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A traveler going on a trip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

journeyer; wayfarer

Hypernyms ("wayfarer" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wayfarer"):

pilgrim (someone who journeys in foreign lands)

 Context examples 

The wayfarers all gazed in the utmost astonishment at the interruption.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The last chance wayfarer had left a supply of firewood.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

So I crept away from the wall as Mr. Creakle's boys were getting up, and struck into the long dusty track which I had first known to be the Dover Road when I was one of them, and when I little expected that any eyes would ever see me the wayfarer I was now, upon it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“So long as I am within the pale of the king's law,” the stranger answered, “I cannot see why I should render account to every passing wayfarer.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There appeared to be more wayfarers on the down than in the forest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the High Street of Lyndhurst the wayfarers had to pick their way, for the little town was crowded with the guardsmen, grooms, and yeomen prickers who were attached to the King's hunt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet from time to time Alleyne met other wayfarers, and more than once was overtaken by strings of pack mules and horsemen journeying in the same direction as himself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Looking round, the wayfarers saw a gaunt, big-boned man, with sunken cheeks and a sallow face, who had come up behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sputtering wood fire threw out a circle of red flickering light which played over the little group of wayfarers, and showed up every line and shadow upon their faces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)