Definitions for wand
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wandnoun

   a rod used by a magician or water diviner

2. wandnoun

   a thin supple twig or rod

   "stems bearing slender wands of flowers"

3. scepter, sceptre, verge, wandnoun

   a ceremonial or emblematic staff

4. baton, wandnoun

   a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wandnoun

   A stick or staff.

2. wandnoun

   An instrument shaped like a stick or staff such as a curling wand.

3. wandnoun

   a magic wand.

4. wandnoun

   A branch or stalk, especially of willow.

5. wandnoun

   A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

6. wandverb

   To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

7. Etymology: From windan.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wandnoun

   Etymology: vaand, Danish.

   1. A small stick, or twig; a long rod.

   The skilful shepherd peel’d me certain wands. William Shakespeare.

   With a whip or wand, if you strike the air, the sharper and quicker you strike it, the louder sound it giveth. Francis Bacon.

   His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
   Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
   Of some great admiral, were but a wand. John Milton.

   A child runs away laughing, with good smart blows of a wand on his back, who would have cried for an unkind word. John Locke, on Education.

   2. Any staff of authority, or use.

   Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty, than instruments of punishment. Philip Sidney.

   He held before his decent steps a silver wand. John Milton.

   3. A charming rod.

   Nay, lady, sit; if I but wave this wand,
   Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster. John Milton.

   Picus bore a buckler in his hand;
   His other wav’d a long divining wand. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wand

   WAND (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Decatur, Illinois, United States, serving the Central Illinois region as an affiliate of NBC. Owned by Block Communications, the station maintains studios on South Side Drive in Decatur, and its transmitter is located along I-72, between Oreana and Argenta. Although WAND's call letters sound like "wand" if pronounced as a word, the station is never referred to in that manner; it is always mentioned on air as "W-A-N-D."

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wand

   A wand is a thin, handheld stick or rod made of wood, metal, or some other material, often associated with magical or mystical powers. It is commonly used as a prop in the practice of magic, and is also a popular symbol in fiction, especially in fantasy literature and media. In a broader context, it could also refer to a rod-like instrument used in conducting or directing something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wandnoun

   a small stick; a rod; a verge

2. Wandnoun

   a staff of authority

3. Wandnoun

   a rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc

4. Etymology: [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vndr, akin to Dan. vaand, Goth. wandus; perhaps originally, a pliant twig, and akin to E. wind to turn.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WAND

   WAND, virtual channel 17, is an American, NBC-affiliated television station serving the Decatur–Springfield–Champaign area. It is owned by Block Communications. It broadcasts on digital UHF channel 17 from a transmitter near Argenta, with two translators, W31BX-D, in Danville and W40CF-D in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wand

   wond, n. a long slender rod: a rod of authority, or of conjurers.—adj. Wand′y, long and flexible. [Ice. vöndr, a shoot of a tree; Dan. vaand.]

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1. WAND

   What does WAND stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WAND acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WAND

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wand is ranked #28049 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wand surname appeared 854 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wand.
   
   84.1% or 719 total occurrences were White.
   6.9% or 59 total occurrences were Black.
   3.2% or 28 total occurrences were Asian.
   3% or 26 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.5% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Rod
   • Staff
   • Twig

Anagrams for wand »

1. dawn

2. Dawn

How to pronounce wand?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say wand in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wand in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of wand in a Sentence

1. Charlie Cytron-Walker:

   I wish I had a magic wand. I wish I could take away all of our pain and struggle, i know that this violation of United States spiritual home was traumatic for each and every one of us. And not just United States. In the road ahead, this is going to be a process.

2. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   There is no magic wand to get rid of haters. There is no secret spell to win them over to your side.

3. Rick Santorum:

   We aresitting there going over thisone spot on the sonogram, he drops the wand andsays 'I have to get the doctor, the doctor comes in and helooks at me, and this is as cold asI can ever remember, he says, 'yourson has a fatal defect and he’sgoing to die.’.

4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

   The way it was, was right, the way it is, is wrong. I wish I could wave a magic wand and have it go back the way it was.

5. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky:

   There are no easy solutions, you want me to magically wave a wand and all of a sudden their nuclear weapons are gone?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wand
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wand
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wand
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wand
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wand
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=wand
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wand
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html