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 Definitions of wander  [ˈwɒn dər]  

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Definition of 'wander' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.i.) wander
to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam.

2.  wander
to go aimlessly or indirectly; meander:
The river wanders among the rocks.

3.  wander
to extend in an irregular course or direction:
Foothills wandered off to the south.

4.  wander
to move, pass, or turn idly, as the hand or the eyes.

5.  wander
(of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc.) to take one direction or another without conscious control.

6.  wander
to stray from a path, place, companions, etc.:
The ship wandered from its course.

7.  wander
to deviate in conduct, belief, etc.; err; go astray.

8. (v.t.) wander
to travel about, on, or through:
He wandered the streets.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME wandren, OE wandrian)

Definition of 'wander' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
"The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

2. (verb) cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
"She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"

3. (verb) wander
go via an indirect route or at no set pace
"After dinner, we wandered into town"

4. (verb) weave, wind, thread, meander, wander
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
"the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

5. (verb) digress, stray, divagate, wander
lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
"She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"


Definition of 'wander' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) wander
to travel without purpose
The boy wandered into a nearby restaurant.; a homeless man wandering the streets

2.  wander
(of your mind) to not pay attention or think logically
As she got older her mind wandered more and more.

3.  wander
(of your eyes) to look at different things when you are not paying attention
His gaze wandered from the clock to the window.


Definition of 'wander' Webster Dictionary 

1. (verb) wander
to ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields

2. (verb) wander
to go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject

3. (verb) wander
to be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders

4. (verb) wander
to travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through


Translation of 'wander' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to go, move, walk etc (about, in or on) from place to place with no definite destination in mind
I'd like to spend a holiday wandering through France; The mother wandered the streets looking for her child.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: drentel Arabic flag Arabic: يَتَجَوَّل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: скитам се
Brazilian flag Brazilian: percorrer Czech flag Czech: toulat se; bloudit German flag German: ziehen
Danish flag Danish: vandre omkring Greek flag Greek: περιπλανιέμαι, τριγυρίζω Spanish flag Spanish: recorrer; vagar, errar; p
Estonian flag Estonian: rändama, hulkuma Farsi flag Farsi: سرگردان بودن Finnish flag Finnish: vaeltaa
French flag French: errer (dans) Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְשוֹטֵט Hindi flag Hindi: घूमना
Croatian flag Croatian: lutati Hungarian flag Hungarian: kószál Indonesian flag Indonesian: mengembara
Icelandic flag Icelandic: ráfa, flækjast Italian flag Italian: vagare, errare Japanese flag Japanese: 歩き回る
Korean flag Korean: (정처 없이) 걸어다니다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: klajoti/keliauti po Latvian flag Latvian: klejot; klīst; ceļot
Malay flag Malay: mengembara, merantau Dutch flag Dutch: dwalen Norwegian flag Norwegian: vandre, streife omkring
Polish flag Polish: włóczyć się (po) Portuguese flag Portuguese: percorrer Romanian flag Romanian: a ră­tă­ci, a cutreiera,
Russian flag Russian: бродить Slovak flag Slovak: túlať sa; blúdiť Slovenian flag Slovenian: potikati se
Serbian flag Serbian: lutati Swedish flag Swedish: vandra (irra, ströva) omk Thai flag Thai: เดินไปโดยไม่มีจุดหมายที่แ
Turkish flag Turkish: dolaşmak, dolanıp durmak Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 漫遊,閒逛,無目的地走,流浪 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: блукати; мандрувати
Urdu flag Urdu: ادھر اُدھر پھرنا Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: đi lang thang Chinese flag Chinese: 漫遊,徘徊,溜达,游荡

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