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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Weary fromtravelling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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On May 4 he arrived in New Orleans a wayworn and nearly forgotten man.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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On May 4 he arrived in New Orleans a wayworn and nearly forgotten man.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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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
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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
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Care beset the wayworn travelers, as to when they should go to bed and rest them.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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Suppose some of the boys had seen me coming through Canterbury, wayworn and ragged, and should find me out?
David Copperfield 2007
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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
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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.
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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.
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