wanderer

Definitions of wanderer
  1. noun
    someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
    synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, rover
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    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
    beachcomber
    a vagrant living on a beach
    Bedouin, Beduin
    a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs
    Bushman
    a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa
    Hun
    a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century
    Saracen
    (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire
    Scythian
    a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia
    sundowner
    a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
    bum, hobo, tramp
    a disreputable vagrant
    type of:
    traveler, traveller
    a person who changes location
  2. noun
    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
    synonyms: spider
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    computer program, computer programme, program, programme
    (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
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