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# wayfarer

«wayfarer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a traveller who goes on foot, walking from place to place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wayfarer, wayfarers)

### meaning for a pupil

(literary, old) A wayfarer is a traveller who goes on foot, walking from place to place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

An old storybook word for walkers on long journeys. In The Wind in the Willows the chapter «Wayfarers All» tells of the Sea Rat, a wanderer who tempts Rat to leave home and travel. In church hymns, life is sometimes called a journey, and the faithful are wayfarers. Phrase: «weary wayfarer».

### examples

- The weary wayfarer stopped at the inn for the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#x1)
- «Wayfarers All» is a chapter about the call to travel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#x2)
- The wayfarer asked the farmer the way to town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#x3)
- Pilgrims and wayfarers walked the old road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#x4)
- The Sea Rat was a wayfarer who had seen many lands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#x5)
- The cottage gave shelter to wayfarers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#x6)
- As the sacred wayfarers pursued their journey, there came rolling towards them a barrel full of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/#x7)

### note

Countable. From «way» (road) + «fare» (to travel). Verb-like adjective: «wayfaring». Modern words: traveller, walker, hiker.

### In the corpora

- [The chapter's name is «Wayfarers All»: wayfarers are travellers on foot, people on their way somewhere.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wayfarer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wayfarer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.