inwanderer
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From inwander + -er and/or in- + wanderer.
Noun
inwanderer (plural inwanderers)
- One who wanders in; an immigrant
- 1890, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, History of California: 1848-1859, page 519:
- Here the first settlements were made by the Mexican inwanderers of a century ago, who huddled round the coast-line missions, which strove for the submission.
- 2011, Andrejs Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic States:
- Traders were simply one of many different kinds of in-wanderers, with the main difference being that some in-wanderers came and stayed while the traders came and left.