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WANDERER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
spider; wanderer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
Synonyms:
bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer
Classified under:
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)
Context examples:
Strange hardships, I imagine—poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Mr. Rivers," I said, turning to him, and looking at him, as he looked at me, openly and without diffidence, "you and your sisters have done me a great service—the greatest man can do his fellow-being; you have rescued me, by your noble hospitality, from death. This benefit conferred gives you an unlimited claim on my gratitude, and a claim, to a certain extent, on my confidence. I will tell you as much of the history of the wanderer you have harboured, as I can tell without compromising my own peace of mind—my own security, moral and physical, and that of others.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Here, come in, bonny wanderer!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He supplicated strength for the weak-hearted; guidance for wanderers from the fold: a return, even at the eleventh hour, for those whom the temptations of the world and the flesh were luring from the narrow path.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find—all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath—already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
