Do you like to travel? Tourism is in vogue now. If people can't afford Paris, they certainly go to Turkey. They also travel around Russia, study their homeland. It is considered to be more patriotic. But in the end it's a matter of taste. Let's talk about a wanderer - this is someone who is radically different from a handsome tourist.
Meaning
The word is familiar to all those who love fairy tales. Who has no job, daily worries and plenty of free time? That's right, in fairy stories, the wanderer is the perfect character, because anything can happen to him.
If you take more recent examples, then the movie "Route 60" comes to mind. The main character is a wanderer, but the difference between the image we are used to and the Hollywood one is that Neil is a boy from a good family. Tramps usually don't have that luxury.
Okay, let's talk about ideas about wandering in the context of the difference between a tourist and an object of study, but for now let's stop the flow of associations with a definition from an explanatory dictionary:
- A wandering person (usually homeless or persecuted).
- A person walking on a pilgrimage, a pilgrim.
By pilgrimage, a word rather strange for a modern ear, they mean pilgrimage to holy places: monasteries, temples, sketes.
Synonyms
Sometimes it happens that the meaning of words is not very clear in the explanatory dictionary. If a similar embarrassment has occurred to the reader, then let him not despair, for already synonyms for the meaning of “wanderer” are in a hurry to help:
- traveler;
- tramp;
- drifter;
- devil;
- pilgrim.
If you mentally exclude the "traveler" from the list, then it will contain nouns that cause some kind of bright melancholy and sadness. Homeless they wander around the world and have nowhere to lay their heads. On the other hand, the worshiper and the pilgrim still go with a specific goal, while the rest are simply wandering. It so happened that they especially have nowhere to go in this big world. But enough sadness. Anyway, we already know the meaning of the word "wanderer", so we can move on to the subtleties.
Wanderer, traveler and tourist
Do these nouns have something in common? Yes, people hiding under such definitions cross space. Some for fun and some out of necessity.
Probably small differences between the words "wanderer", "traveler" and "tourist" can be foundlot. But the main thing that distinguishes a traveler, a tourist and a wanderer is the concepts of well-being and trouble. The traveler can be rich or poor. A traveler can even be a wanderer when the latter wants to slightly soften his position in the eyes of other people. Remember the conversation between Pontius Pilate and Yeshua. The wanderer told the procurator that he was traveling from city to city, and the official called him a tramp contemptuously.
Another thing is a tourist. One who travels in comfort and under the supervision of tour operators cannot be called a wanderer in any weather. The wanderer's travels are a forced measure. For the tourist, it is rest and satisfaction of the lust of the eyes. But they probably have a common desire to conquer space. Otherwise they are different.
