floater vs wanderer

wanderer vs floater

floater and wanderer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
floater	Yes	No	No	No
wanderer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wanderer is a hypernym of floater; that is, wanderer is a word with a broader meaning than floater:

floater: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
wanderer: someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Other hypernyms of floater include have-not, poor person, bird of passage, roamer, rover.

floater (noun)	wanderer (noun)
an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location	a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
an object that floats or is capable of floating	someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
a swimmer who floats in the water
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens

Difference between floater and wanderer

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