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wanderers

wanderers is the plural of wanderer.

Meaning of wanderer

Noun

wanderer (plural wanderers)

  1. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
    • The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid
  2. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
  3. (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

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Noun capitalized: Wanderers

Wanderers

  1. (plural) plural of Wanderer

Phrases with wanderers

Questions about wanderers

What is wanderers the plural of?
Wanderers is the plural of wanderer.
What part of speech is wanderers?
Wanderers is a noun.

Words near wanderers in the dictionary

  1. wanderable
  2. wandered
  3. wandered off
  4. wanderedst
  5. wanderer
  6. wanderers
  7. wanderess
  8. wanderesses
  9. wanderest
  10. wandereth
  11. wanderin'

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