What does wandering mean?

Definitions for wandering
ˈwɒn dər ɪŋwan·der·ing

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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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Wandering

    of Wander

  2. Wandering

    a. & n. from Wander, v

Wikidata

  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. New York-based:

    We’ve been kind of wandering around just missing them.

  2. Amishi Jha:

    It's the antidote to mind wandering, it's paying attention to our present moment experience without editorializing or reacting to it.

  3. Jeff Yang:

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

  4. War Relief -RRB- Fine:

    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,'.

  5. James Grimaldi:

    This time of year, it's common to get calls several times a week for alligators wandering into people's yards and roadways.

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