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WAYFARER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traveler going on a trip

Synonyms:

journeyer; wayfarer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Sense 2

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

They were a humble group of wayfarers, such as might have been found that night in any inn through the length and breadth of England; but to him they represented that vague world against which he had been so frequently and so earnestly warned.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Nigel and his lady walked on in deep talk, while a fat under-steward took charge of the three comrades, and led them to the buttery, where beef, bread, and beer were kept ever in readiness for the wayfarer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even as the three wayfarers stared, however, there was a sudden change, for the smaller man, having finished his song, loosened his own gown and handed the scourge to the other, who took up the stave once more and lashed his companion with all the strength of his bare and sinewy arm.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So the archer gossiped as the three wayfarers threaded their way among the stamping horses, the busy grooms, and the knots of pages and squires who disputed over the merits of their masters' horses and deer-hounds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The broad strips of bracken glowed red and yellow against the black peaty soil, and a queenly doe who grazed among them turned her white front and her great questioning eyes towards the wayfarers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the shrill out-cry of the landlady when she found her loss, and the clucking of the hens, which had streamed in through the open door, that first broke in upon the slumbers of the tired wayfarers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leaving the thumbless archer and his brood, the wayfarers struck through the scattered huts of Emery Down, and out on to the broad rolling heath covered deep in ferns and in heather, where droves of the half-wild black forest pigs were rooting about amongst the hillocks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)