wayfare
/ˈweɪfɛə(ɹ)/
wayfare noun: travel, journeying.
Noun
wayfare (uncountable)
- Travel, journeying.
- What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.1827 May 13, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
- Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its...1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […]...
Verb
wayfare (third-person singular simple present wayfares, present participle wayfaring, simple past wayfore or wayfared, past participle wayfaren or wayfared)
- To make a journey; to travel.
- A certain Laconian as he way-fared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend an hoſt of his, who the firſt day, of purpoſe avoided him, and was out of the way, becauſe he was not minded to lodge him; […]1603, Plutarch, “Laconicke Apophthegmes, or the Notable Sayings of Lacedæmonians”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC...
- But know, these English take to liquid life / Right patly— […] The sea is their dry land, / And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part first, London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, Act VI, scene vii, page 220
wayfare meaning in Tamil
wayfare in Tamil
- வியவன்
Forms of wayfare
| third-person singular present | wayfares |
|---|---|
| present participle | wayfaring |
| past | wayfore |
| past | wayfared |
| past participle | wayfaren |
| past participle | wayfared |
Origin of wayfare
From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English weġfarende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende (“wayfaring”), Swedish vägfarande, German wegfahren (“to drive away”), Icelandic vegfarandi (“wayfaring”). More at way, fare.
Questions about wayfare
- What does wayfare mean?
- Wayfare means travel, journeying.
- What is wayfare in Tamil?
- Wayfare in Tamil is வியவன். See Wayfare meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is wayfare?
- Wayfare can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wayfare?
- Wayfare is pronounced /ˈweɪfɛə(ɹ)/.
Words near wayfare in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wayfare (page history and authors); wayfare (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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