wanderlust
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wanderlust (“an urge to travel; a love of the ‘great outdoors’”), from wandern (“to wander; to hike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn; to wind”)) + Lust (“a desire, a wish to do or have something; fun, pleasure”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)); analysable as wander + lust.
Compound parts: wander
lust
Inflected forms:
form: wanderlusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wanderlust
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wanderlusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wanderlusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wanderlusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wanderlusted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Wanderlust
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A strong impulse or longing to travel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Very often we made detours from the main caravan, rejoining it at a given spot, and this spirit of "wanderlust" brought us into a nice quandary one fine day.
For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife.
The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
They were deliriously happy for a few years, but always her soul felt the call of wanderlust.
Apart from a visit to Paris in 1825 he [Adelbert von Chamisso] enjoyed the peace of his home and of his study at Berlin until the hour of his death without any further visitations of Wanderlust.
If you find yourself suffering from an attack of Wanderlust, this is the book for you!
[Edward Verrall] Lucas is no less interested in places, imbued as he has always been with wanderlust.
The shallow waters immediately adjacent to California's 1200 miles of coastline offer a wide variety of habitats where at least 250 kinds of fishes live out all or some of their lives. [...] The eggs and larvae of some may drift seaward and lead a pelagic existence, but once their wanderlust is satisfied, the juveniles return to nearshore areas where they take up life as their parents did before them.
His death brings to light the thwarted ambitions, bridled emotions, unfulfilled loves, or unsatisfied wanderlusts of his surviving friends.
Or perhaps walking should be called movement, not travel, for one can walk in circles or travel around the world immobilized in a seat, and a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
What is it, about this wanderlust? The compulsive desire to travel, surely; to reach out for spaces where the serendipity of experience can unfold of itself into a life journey?
I've suffered from wanderlust since I was a child. Perhaps it's the result of being the grandchild of immigrants who found a better life by traveling somewhere else, or (more likely) because when I was a kid, traveling meant not having to go to school or do house chores.
I saw the wind brush a swirl of dust / from the surface of a sleeping form, / Awakening a hidden thrush / of wanderlusts it had ignored, [...]
gloss: An impulse to be unfaithful or seek out other romantic or sexual partners; a straying heart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Males like lots of rapid anonymous sex. It's a biological drive. When you get a male-female couple together the male often gives up his wanderlust in exchange for the security of having a home.
I was the slapper ... was in a short piece where I was a jealous girlfriend who slapped my date for his wanderlust.
Donna was a model of TRUE "Family Values"! She tried to keep Ghoulie as her busband, but his wanderlust could not be controlled.
gloss: To feel a strong impulse or longing to travel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yes, he probably saw a picture of the South Sea islands last night, and now he is wanderlusting.
gloss: To roam or travel widely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Be assured that we will never weary listening to tales related by one who has wanderlusted so many years," flattered Mrs. Cunningham, [...]
It was the joy of our lives to be once more "hitting the trail," lustily as ever, Sunday last, under the brave lead of one who started the community hike here, and who, after three months wanderlusting in other lands must rejoice to find that a few brave scouts have kept up the good work here and made of us "some hikers."
Moroney wanderlusted around the business houses, taking a two hour lunch on principle. People inside dealing and dialling, filing and invoicing, collating and collecting, debiting and crediting.
I went there partly because I had shown signs of terminal wanderlust – and the West Coast is the premier place in the U.S. for wanderlusting around – and partly because L.A. is such a mixture of fact, fantasy, and illusion that, as an Americanist, I felt I had to go.
On a one-way. Roaming holiday. Wanderlusting.
Related words: dromomania
footloose
hypermobility
itchy feet
travel bug
craving
Derived words: squanderlust
wanderluster
wanderlustful
wanderlusty
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