Meaning & use
wanderlust
A strong desire to travel and explore the world.
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Her wanderlust led her to backpack through a dozen countries after college.
Reading travel blogs online only fed his growing sense of wanderlust.
A note on using this word
Wanderlust comes from German and describes an ongoing craving to travel, not a single trip.
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