Wanderer

[won-der-er]

noun

Scottish History.

1. a Covenanter persecuted by Charles II and James II, especially one who fled home to follow rebellious Presbyterian ministers who refused to accept episcopacy.

Example Sentences

Rick Karr, a 51-year-old spiritual wanderer, has no Web site, but says he was instructed by the Holy Spirit to travel to the desert and answer the phone.

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The craze began two years ago after a high-desert wanderer noticed a telephone icon on a Mojave road map.

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Social studies teacher Gregg Solkovits remembers his days years ago at Monroe High in the San Fernando Valley as an unlucky campus wanderer, trudging from classroom to classroom, lugging teaching materials and personal artifacts around, as he did not have a room to call his own.

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I’ve always been a wanderer, a mover.

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Lezhneva’s enthralling Pleasure acted as a kind of ghost, a haunted wanderer seeking her own validation rather than victims.

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Related Words

• nomad 
• vagabond