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Noun

wayfarer (plural wayfarers)

  • A traveller, especially one on foot.
    • ✤ *His head far down the hot sweet throat of her —
      So one tracks love, whose breath is deadlier,
      And lo, one springe and you are fast in hell,
      Fast as the gin’s grip of a wayfarer. *1
    • ✤ English travellers are sometimes found grumbling because the señor who keeps a wayside posada, or even a more pretentious inn in one of the towns, does not stand, hat in hand, bowing obsequiously to the wayfarer who deigns to use the accommodation provided.2
    • ✤ ESTRAGON: That would be too bad, really too bad. (Pause.) Wouldn’t it, Didi, be really too bad? (Pause.) When you think of the beauty of the way. (Pause.) And the goodness of the wayfarers. (Pause. Wheedling.) Wouldn’t it, Didi?3

Etymology

From Middle English weyfarere, weifarere; equivalent to way +‎ farer.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈweɪˌfɛəɹ.ə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris: ↩

  2. 1904, L. Higgin, Eugène E. Street, Spanish Life in Town and Country ‎: ↩

  3. 1954 [1948], Samuel Beckett, *Waiting for Godot […] *, New York: Grove Press, translation of En attendant Godot, page 11: ↩

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