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Wander vs Wayfare - What's the difference?

wander | wayfare |

As verbs the difference between wander and wayfare

is that wander is (lb) to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood while wayfare is (archaic) to travel; make a journey.

As nouns the difference between wander and wayfare

is that wander is the act or instance of wandering while wayfare is (archaic) travel, journeying.

wander

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) xi.37:
  • *:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • (lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
  • *:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • (lb) To commit adultery.
  • (lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  • (lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

    • Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    Synonyms

    * (move without purpose) err, roam * (commit adultery) cheat * (go somewhere indirectly) * (lose focus) drift

    Derived terms

    * wander off * wanderer * wanderlust

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or instance of wandering.
    • To go for a wander

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    wayfare

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Travel, journeying.
  • *1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , 13 May,
  • *:What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.

    • Verb

  • (archaic) To travel; make a journey.
  • * Holland
    • A certain Laconian, as he wayfared , came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.
  • *1904 , , The Dynasts , part 1, act 6, sc. 7,
    • The sea is their dry land,
    And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.

    Related terms

    *wayfarer *wayfaring