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WANDERER

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English dictionary: Word overview

WANDERER (noun)
  The noun WANDERER has 2 senses:

1. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
2. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

  Familiarity information: WANDERER used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


WANDERER (noun)


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Meaning:

Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer

Hypernyms ("wanderer" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wanderer"):

nomad (a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons)

drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)


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Meaning:

A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

spider; wanderer

Hypernyms ("wanderer" is a kind of...):

computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)


English Proverbs
"A miss is as good as a mile."
(English proverb)
"Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant."
(Native American proverb, Kiowa)
"The stupid might have wanted to help you, but ended up hurting you."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who has nothing will not eat. If you want flour, go gather chestnuts."
(Corsican proverb)


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