wayfaring

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adjective

Travelling, especially on foot.

UncommonScrabble 19

Meanings

wayfaring1

adjectivewayfaring (not comparable)

alternative waifaring

  1. not comparableTravelling, especially on foot.
    1 more example

    If a traveller, emancipating himself slowly from the endless suburbs, and smoke, and din of dirty Wolstanstone (corrupted into Wolstone), a manufacturing town not in the South of England, proceed westward, he enters into a region of peace and rural beauty, refreshing as the vision of Beatrice was to Dante, the glimpse of earth to Satan, the thoughts of home to them who know that their lot is to perish in the wave. The village of Northington, which the wayfaring man from Wolstone may be thought thus to hail, reflects, nevertheless, the wealth of its great and smoky neighbour.

    1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter I, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5
  2. not comparablePeripatetic.
nounwayfaring (countable and uncountable, plural wayfarings)

plural wayfarings · alternative waifaring

  1. countableuncountableTravel, especially on foot.

wayfaring2

verb

alternative waifaring

  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wayfare

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivetraveling especially on foot

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Old Englishweġfarende
  2. Middle Englishwayferande
  3. Englishwayfaring

From Middle English wayferande, weyverinde, wayverinde, from Old English weġfarende, weġfērende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Icelandic vegfarandi. More at wayfare.

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APA

wayfaring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wayfaring

MLA

“wayfaring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wayfaring. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wayfaring,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wayfaring.

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