someone who travels from place to place without a fixed destination or home.
From Old English 'wandrian,' possibly from Old Saxon 'wandon.' The suffix '-er' means 'one who does,' so a wanderer is literally 'one who wanders.' The root is possibly related to 'wend' (to go).
Throughout history, wanderers have been both romanticized and feared—medieval wanderers might be poets or bandits, and this ambiguity reflects humanity's complex feelings about people who reject stable, settled lives.
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