A person travelling from place to place, especially on foot. This is an old, literary word — you meet it in poems, in hymns, in fairy tales, in translations of the Bible, in fantasy novels where a stranger arrives at an inn at dusk. Nobody today says 'I met a wayfarer on the bus'. The picture it gives is of someone walking a long road alone, with what they own on their back, not sure where they will sleep. That is why the word feels slightly sad and slightly noble at the same time, and why writers reach for it when they want the journey to sound like a life, not a holiday. In modern English you are most likely to see the word on signs and brand names — a hotel or a pub called The Wayfarer, or the Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses, which is honestly where most students meet it first. The adjective wayfaring survives mainly in the old phrase 'a wayfaring stranger', from the folk song.