Wanderer

[ won-der-er ]

noun

, Scottish History.

1. a Covenanter persecuted by Charles II and James II, especially one who fled home to follow rebellious Presbyterian ministers who refused to accept episcopacy.

Example Sentences

With the inductions concluded, Dion performed his signature hit “The Wanderer,” while Love brought the house down with “River Deep Mountain High.”

From Salon

Didion’s Hollywood is a wanderer’s oasis, or maybe mirage, and reckoning with the difference is Maria’s affliction, and by extension our own.

From Los Angeles Times

The typewriter was made in Siegmar-Schönau—a suburb of Chemnitz—by Wanderer, an early German pioneer in manufacturing bicycles, motorcycles, cars, and later military trucks and tanks for the Wehrmacht, the armed forces in the Nazi era.

From Slate

In the 1930s, Wanderer’s automotive division was one of four car companies consolidated into the Auto Union AG, which later became Audi.

From Slate

Indeed, one of the four interconnected rings on the Audi brand logo represents Wanderer.

From Slate

Related Words

• nomad
• vagabond