traveler vs wanderer

wanderer vs traveler

traveler and wanderer both are nouns.

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

As nouns, wanderer is a hyponym of traveler; that is, wanderer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than traveler:

traveler: a person who changes location
wanderer: someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Other hyponyms of traveler include absentee, air traveler, air traveller, arrival, arriver, comer, astronaut, cosmonaut, spaceman, business traveler, bearer, carrier, toter, companion, fellow traveler, fellow traveller, entrant, flier, flyer, follower, alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander, hosteller, courier, messenger, migrant, migrator, motorcyclist, mover, musher, passenger, rider, footer, pedestrian, walker, rafter, raftman, raftsman, rider, rider, runner, scourer, bather, natator, swimmer, holidaymaker, tourer, tourist, transient, trekker, visitant, visitor, voyager, bird of passage, roamer, rover, journeyer, wayfarer.

traveler (noun)	wanderer (noun)
a person who changes 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
	someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Difference between traveler and wanderer

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