Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Wearied by traveling.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearied or worn by or in traveling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Wearied by traveling.

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  • adjective Weary from travelling.

Etymologies

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way +‎ worn

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Examples

  • Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • On May 4 he arrived in New Orleans a wayworn and nearly forgotten man.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • On May 4 he arrived in New Orleans a wayworn and nearly forgotten man.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • The inn was so full that my hostess said she could not give me a bed — rather an unwelcome announcement to a wayworn traveller — and with considerable complacency she took me into

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Care beset the wayworn travelers, as to when they should go to bed and rest them.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • Suppose some of the boys had seen me coming through Canterbury, wayworn and ragged, and should find me out?

    David Copperfield 2007

  • All the African travellers, wayworn, solitary and sad, submit themselves again to drunken, murderous, man-selling despots, of the lowest order of humanity; and Mungo

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • It was a serious consideration to me, who at that time was travelling through the West with a very small and very wayworn portmanteau, with Glasgow, Torquay, Boston, Rock Island, and I know not what besides upon it.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • London, he looked at _me_, then at _it_, suspiciously, as if doubting whether the possessor of such a little wayworn portmanteau could he the _bonâ fide_ owner of such a sum as the figures represented.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

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