WANDERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wanderer mean? 

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

1. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

2. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

  Familiarity information: WANDERER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WANDERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer

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

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

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

nomad (a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons)

clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)

Derivation:

wander (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

spider; wanderer

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

computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)

 Context examples 

Will you smile at the enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Another time the brown wanderer succeeded in traversing half the length of California, all of Oregon, and most of Washington, before he was picked up and returned "Collect."

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

Of the appearance of the four wanderers little need be said, since their photographs have for some time been appearing in all the papers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Sir," I answered, a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In trooped the whole family, and everyone was hugged and kissed all over again, and after several vain attempts, the three wanderers were set down to be looked at and exulted over.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So our poor wanderer went forth, and found all as the night-wind had said; and she plucked the eleventh rod, and smote the dragon, and the lion forthwith became a prince, and the dragon a princess again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We passed the night at the old house, which, freed from the presence of the Heeps, seemed purged of a disease; and I lay in my old room, like a shipwrecked wanderer come home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth; but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So taught by love and sorrow, Jo wrote her little stories, and sent them away to make friends for themselves and her, finding it a very charitable world to such humble wanderers, for they were kindly welcomed, and sent home comfortable tokens to their mother, like dutiful children whom good fortune overtakes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)