What does WANDERING mean?
Definitions for WANDERING
ˈwɒn dər ɪŋwan·der·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word WANDERING.
Princeton's WordNet
wandering, roving, vagabondageadjective
travelling about without any clear destination
"she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wanderingadjective
migratory
"a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), windingadjective
of a path e.g.
"meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"
erratic, planetary, wanderingadjective
having no fixed course
"an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
Wiktionary
wanderingnoun
Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
wanderingnoun
Irregular turning of the eyes.
wanderingnoun
Aimless thought.
wanderingnoun
Straying from a desired path.
wanderingnoun
Disordered speech or delirium.
wanderingadjective
That which wanders.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wanderingnoun
Etymology: from wander.
He asks the god, what new appointed home
Should end his wand’rings, and his toils relieve? Addison.If any man’s eagerness of glory has made him oversee the way to it, let him now recover his wanderings. Decay of Piety.
A proper remedy for this wandering of thoughts, would do great service to the studious. John Locke.
ChatGPT
wandering
Wandering refers to moving about without a definite destination or purpose, often associated with aimless or random movement. It can also imply moving or deviating away from a standard or intended course. Wandering can also be used metaphorically, referring to one's thoughts or attention shifting aimlessly or unpredictably.
Webster Dictionary
Wandering
of Wander
Wandering
a. & n. from Wander, v
Wikidata
Wandering
Wandering is a town located in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 120 kilometres from the state capital, Perth, just off the Albany Highway. It is the main town in the Shire of Wandering. At the 2006 census, Wandering had a population of 355.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of WANDERING in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of WANDERING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of WANDERING in a Sentence
If you're someone who works from home and you find yourself wandering into the kitchen too many times, or if you keep visiting an office kitchen that's packed with snacks, here chewing a piece of gum may help, it's putting something in your mouth, it's keeping it busy, it has this great flavor in it, and you might be less likely to reach for food... or that piece of chocolate on your co-worker's desk.
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. It seeps through cracks, ripples the grass, explores the unknown. My love is my soul's imagination.
There's easily a million stray animals right now, if not two million wandering around Ukraine looking for food, and they're going to start mating, and they're in shelters that don't have protection because they don't have enough cages. You're going to have a huge problem, so we said, we need to set up mobile units to go over there and spay, neuter, vaccinate these animals. And then we thought about, and we said, ‘Well, let's work that with Microsoft and put in a chip or read their chips and try to reunite them with their owners,'.
We're all hoping that this works, because 20 years of wandering in the wilderness is damn well enough.
This is a time of uncertainty and planning can help establish a sense of normalcy for kids, not to mention, preparing the lunch just as if you would pack it for school will help prevent your children from mindless eating and wandering to the kitchen.
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- erranteSpanish
- سیارPersian
- erranceFrench
- allabanScottish Gaelic
- vagabundoGalician
- vappIcelandic
- vagusLatin
- vagarPortuguese
- vandrandeSwedish
- lang thangVietnamese
- וואַנדערינגYiddish
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