Wanderlust
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Wanderlust (countable and uncountable, plural Wanderlusts)
- Alternative letter-case form of wanderlust
- 1912, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Wanderlust”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 123:
- 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.
- 1932, August C[arl] Mahr, “Introduction”, in The Visit of the “Rurik” to San Francisco in 1816 (Stanford University Publications, University Series ; History, Economics, and Political Science; volume II, number 2), Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, pages 17–18:
- 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.
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wandern (“to hike/wander”) + Lust (“joy”).
Noun[edit]
Wanderlust f (genitive Wanderlust, no plural)
- wanderlust; the urge to travel, the love of the "great outdoors"
Declension[edit]
Declension of Wanderlust [sg-only, feminine]
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Further reading[edit]
- “Wanderlust” in Duden online