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wayfares

wayfares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wayfare.

Meaning of wayfare

Verb

wayfare (third-person singular simple present wayfares, present participle wayfaring, simple past wayfore or wayfared, past participle wayfaren or wayfared)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) 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...

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Questions about wayfares

What is wayfares the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wayfares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wayfare.

Words near wayfares in the dictionary

  1. wayes
  2. wayfare
  3. wayfared
  4. wayfarer
  5. wayfarers
  6. wayfares
  7. wayfaress
  8. wayfaring
  9. wayfaring tree
  10. wayfaring trees
  11. wayfaring-tree

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