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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

  1. wandering, roving, vagabondageadjective

    travelling about without any clear destination

    "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

  2. 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"

  3. 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"

  4. erratic, planetary, wanderingadjective

    having no fixed course

    "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

Wiktionary

  1. wanderingnoun

    Travelling with no preset route; roaming.

  2. wanderingnoun

    Irregular turning of the eyes.

  3. wanderingnoun

    Aimless thought.

  4. wanderingnoun

    Straying from a desired path.

  5. wanderingnoun

    Disordered speech or delirium.

  6. wanderingadjective

    That which wanders.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wandering

    of Wander

  2. Wandering

    a. & n. from Wander, v

Freebase

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wandering in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wandering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of wandering in a Sentence

  1. Bern Williams:

    Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

  2. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

    listen! trench town was a healing sanctuary for many a wandering souls in kingston jamaica. I am here now to make sure that this crucial part of our history/my history will be permanently enshrined with us legends and be so protected. No one else can do it.

  3. Jeff Yang:

    We're all hoping that this works, because 20 years of wandering in the wilderness is damn well enough.

  4. Dr. Rich Melheim:

    When a child's mind begins to wander because of something you (the teacher) have said, wander with it. When it begins to wander because of nothing you said, kick yourself in the posterior and say something worth wandering about!

  5. Clarice Phelps:

    They had left me off this whole thing, i felt embarrassed because everyone is wandering around this luncheon, and I literally did n’t have a seat at the table. I went outside, and I was crying.

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