Definition of Wanderjahr in English:
Wanderjahr
nounPlural Wanderjahre ˈvandəjɑːˈvändərˌyär
North American A year spent travelling abroad, typically immediately before or after a university or college course.
Example sentencesExamples
- Rigorous and lengthy clinical training replaced the short courses, European Wanderjahre, and apprenticeships of antebellum America.
- Huxley filled these scientific Wanderjahre with the usual minutiae of technical studies on jellyfishes and grand adventures with the aboriginal peoples of Australia and several Pacific islands.
- After graduating from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., in 1997, Overbeck embarked on a yearlong Wanderjahr throughout Southeast Asia studying the golf course industry with a grant from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.
- His stay in Rome then would have been less a Wanderjahr and presumably more akin to a business trip.
- In 1894-5 during his Wanderjahr in Europe, this young American star was welcomed by the leading mathematically inclined theorists in every country.
- His obsession with the Holocaust since boyhood led him to a city that would wake him up, and he likens his self-imposed Wanderjahre to having ‘a bucket of cold water thrown at your face every morning.’
- What he learned and experienced during his adolescence and early manhood could scarcely be described by Goethe's terms Lehrjahre or Wanderjahre.
Origin
Late 19th century: German, literally 'wander year'.