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Meaning of 'wander' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Wander [ v. i.]
- 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.
- To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
- To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
2 . Wander [ v. t.]
- To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

Meaning of 'wander' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . wander [ v]
Meaning (1):
- go via an indirect route or at no set pace
Example in sentence:
  • After dinner, we wandered into town
Meaning (2):
- lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
Example in sentence:
  • Don't digress when you give a lecture;
  • her mind wanders;
  • She always digresses when telling a story
Meaning (3):
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
Example in sentence:
  • Might her husband be wandering?;
  • She cheats on her husband
Meaning (4):
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Example in sentence:
  • roving vagabonds;
  • The cattle roam across the prairie;
  • The gypsies roamed the woods;
  • the laborers drift from one town to the next;
  • the wandering Jew;
  • They rolled from town to town
Meaning (5):
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
Example in sentence:
  • sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body;
  • the path meanders through the vineyards;
  • the river winds through the hills

Nearby Words:

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