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wayfaring

wayfaring adjective: travelling, especially on foot. Also the present participle and gerund of wayfare.

Adjective

wayfaring (not comparable)

  1. Travelling, especially on foot.
    • If a traveller, emancipating himself slowly from the endless suburbs, and smoke, and din of dirty Wolstanstone (corrupted into Wolstone), a manufacturing town not in the South of England, proceed westward, he enters into a region of peace and rural beauty, refreshing as the vision of Beatrice was...1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter I, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5
  2. Peripatetic.

Noun

wayfaring (countable and uncountable, plural wayfarings)

  1. Travel, especially on foot.

Also used as

wayfaring is also the present participle and gerund of wayfare.

Forms of wayfaring

Adjective
alternative formwaifaring
Noun
pluralwayfarings

Origin of wayfaring

From Middle English wayferande, weyverinde, wayverinde, from Old English weġfarende, weġfērende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Icelandic vegfarandi. More at wayfare.

Words formed from wayfaring

Phrases with wayfaring

Questions about wayfaring

What does wayfaring mean?
Wayfaring means travelling, especially on foot.
What part of speech is wayfaring?
Wayfaring can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near wayfaring in the dictionary

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

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