What is another word for wayfarers?

Pronunciation: [wˈe͡ɪfe͡əɹəz] (IPA)

Wayfarers are people who travel on foot over long distances. They can be called wanderers, vagabonds, or pilgrims, depending on their purpose. Nomads, roamers, and drifters are other synonyms that can be used to describe wayfarers. Some may call them gypsies, travelers, or journeyers. Wayfarers also can be classified as backpackers, hikers, or trekkers. Some may even refer to them as adventurers, explorers, or globetrotters. Regardless of what you call them, wayfarers are individuals who seek new experiences, challenge themselves and discover new paths in life.

What are the hypernyms for Wayfarers?

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Usage examples for Wayfarers

How they came to find themselves walking down a street with many lamps, corners radiant with light, and a steady succession of motor-omnibuses plying both ways along it, they could neither of them tell; nor account for the impulse which led them suddenly to select one of these wayfarers and mount to the very front seat.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
In his fondness for the old style of travelling, the Squire makes most of his journeys on horseback, though he laments the modern deficiency of incident on the road, from the want of fellow-wayfarers, and the rapidity with which every one else is whirled along in coaches and post-chaises.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Not only were there many farms, with more or less well-built houses, but the cavalcade began to meet other wayfarers,-men and women,-on foot and on horseback, and hardly any of them were willing to be passed without obtaining the latest news from Vera Cruz and from the war.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard

Famous quotes with Wayfarers

  • Why should a poet pray thus? poets scorn The boundaried love of country, being free Of winds, and alien lands, and distances, Vagabonds of the compass, wayfarers, Pilgrims of thought, the tongues of Pentecost Their privilege
    Vita Sackville-West

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