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wayfaress

wayfaress is the female equivalent of wayfarer.

Meaning of wayfarer

Noun

wayfarer (plural wayfarers)

  1. A traveller, especially one on foot.
    • His head far down the hot sweet throat of her —
      So one tracks love, whose breath is deadlier,
      And lo, one springe and you are fast in hell,
      Fast as the gin's grip of a wayfarer.1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris

Synonyms of wayfaress

Forms of wayfaress

pluralwayfaresses

Questions about wayfaress

What is wayfaress the female equivalent of?
Wayfaress is the female equivalent of wayfarer.

Words near wayfaress in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wayfaress (page history and authors); wayfarer (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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