MAUNDERER Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

maunderer

noun

Definition of maunderer

as in nomad

a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination the city has many quaint alleys and backstreets to interest the urban maunderer

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Noun

Christian and Adam Bonke will present Perfect Road, chronicling a man living as a nomad on his bicycle for 10 years.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
On the side streets, small stands sell bad food and plastic trinkets, while a few Travellers, Ireland’s indigenous nomads, work rival fortune-telling franchises.

— Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of nomad

Noun

Carlos Antunes, Tap’s director for the Americas, told T+L that the airline introduced bidding with different types of travelers in mind.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2026
Working with the Catholic charity Caritas, her initiative receives more than 29 pounds of medicine each week from humanitarian groups in Canada and the United States, travelers carrying donations and local residents.

— Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

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Saints follows Lali, a drifter and a thief, who is pulled back to Barcelona to face and care for her estranged mother Gloria.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
Two mysterious drifters never speak; their inner monologues carry us across absurdist one-liners, weird tales, and stream-of-consciousness musings.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of drifter

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