errant.

Traveling in search of adventure, especially in the expression knight-errant.

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Words that belong together

• knight-errant
• errant knight
• errant adventurer

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An errant knight asked for work instead of hospitality.

She chose the errant life after refusing a place at court.

The ballad followed an errant champion from one disputed border to the next.

Usage notes

Primary category: fantasy. Literary historical sense; elsewhere errant means straying, mistaken, or misbehaving, not necessarily adventurous. Adjective: errant; non-gradable in the traveling-knight sense. Knight-errant has plural knights-errant; these are compound forms, not aliases of errant alone.