Wayfare vs Traveller - What's the difference?
wayfare | traveller |
(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.
(archaic) To travel; make a journey.
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*1904 , , The Dynasts , part 1, act 6, sc. 7,
One who travels, especially to distant lands.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= (label) A modern-day gypsy, tinker, caravan dweller, etc.
(label) A member of the nomadic ethnic minority.
A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
(label) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
As nouns the difference between wayfare and traveller
is that wayfare is (archaic) travel, journeying while traveller is (ireland) a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in ireland.As a verb wayfare
is (archaic) to travel; make a journey.wayfare
English
Noun
(-)Verb
- A certain Laconian, as he wayfared , came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.
- The sea is their dry land,
- And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.
traveller
English
(wikipedia traveller)Alternative forms
* traveler (US)Noun
(en noun)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}