Definitions for wander
ˈwɒn dərwan·der

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabondverb

   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. cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wanderverb

   be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

   "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"

3. wanderverb

   go via an indirect route or at no set pace

   "After dinner, we wandered into town"

4. weave, wind, thread, meander, wanderverb

   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. digress, stray, divagate, wanderverb

   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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. wandernoun

   The act or instance of wandering.

   To go for a wander

2. wanderverb

   To move without purpose; often in search of livelihood.

3. wanderverb

   To commit adultery.

4. wanderverb

   To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.

5. wanderverb

   Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Wanderverb

   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. Wanderverb

   to go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject

3. Wanderverb

   to be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders

4. Wanderverb

   to travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Wander

   won′dėr, v.i. to ramble with no definite object: (lit. or fig.) to go astray: to leave home; to depart from the subject: to be delirious: (coll.) to lose one's way.—v.t. to traverse: (coll.) to lead astray.—n. Wan′derer.—adj. Wan′dering.—adv. Wan′deringly, in a wandering, uncertain, or unsteady manner.—Wandering Jew, a legendary Jew in the folklore of north-western Europe who cannot die but must wander till the Day of Judgment, for an insult offered to Christ on the way to the Crucifixion—various names given him are Cartaphilus, Isaac Laquedom, and Buttadeus. [A.S. wandrian; Ger. wandern; allied to wend, and to wind, to turn round.]

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1. Wander

   Wander is a beautiful way to share and experience the world.Founded by Jeremy Fisher, previously founder of Dinevore, and Keenan Cummings.Wander is a TechStars NYC Summer 2012 company.

Matched Categories

1. • Proceed
   • Tell
   • Travel

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wander' in Verbs Frequency: #630

Anagrams for wander »

1. Andrew

2. warden

3. warned

How to pronounce wander?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wander in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wander in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of wander in a Sentence

1. J. R. R. Tolkien:

   All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.

2. Mwanandeke Kindembo:

   In every religion there is always a touch of mystery. Letting the mind wander in unnecessary things.

3. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   Your Mind waits and waits and only waits for it never commits into anything seriously, it only loves to wander aimlessly. Time is very precious, ACT Now, Breathe Life!

4. Ben Carson:

   I don't wander off into those extraneous areas that can be exploited. I have learned that, moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility.

5. Blaise Pascal:

   We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

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