wander
see also: Wander
Etymology
Wander
Proper noun
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see also: Wander
Etymology
From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian, from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn, from *wandōn + *-rōn.
Pronunciation- (RP) IPA: /ˈwɒndə/
- (America) IPA: /ˈwɑndɚ/
- (West Midlands, especially, Birmingham) IPA: /ˈwʊndə/, IPA: /ˈwʌndə/
wander (wanders, present participle wandering; simple past and past participle wandered)
- (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
- Synonyms: err, roam
- to wander over the fields
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC ↗:
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
- (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
- A writer wanders from his subject.
- (intransitive) To commit adultery.
- Synonyms: cheat
- (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- Synonyms: drift
- (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
- Synonyms: distract, scatter
- French: errer, vaguer, divaguer
- German: umherstreifen, umherstreichen, herumziehen, stromern, (dated) zigeunern, schlendern, bummeln, wandeln
- Italian: errare, vagare, girovagare, passeggiare, bighellonare, vagabondare
- Portuguese: vagar, perambular, vadiar
- Russian: броди́ть
- Spanish: vagar, divagar, errar, deambular
- Italian: allontanarsi, svicolare, perdersi
- Spanish: desviarse, descarriarse
- German: fremdgehen, einen Seitensprung tun
- Italian: tradire
- Spanish: engañar, aventurar
- German: umherschweifen
- Italian: vagare, serpeggiare
- Spanish: peregrinar
- German: abschweifen
- Italian: divagare
- Spanish: divagar, pajarear, pajaronear
wander
- (countable) An act or instance of wandering.
- to go for a wander in the park
- (uncountable, of a value, signal or similar) Deviation from a correct or normal value.
- Hyponym: polar wander
- baseline wander in ECG signals
- Italian: vagabondaggio
- Portuguese: vagueação, perambulação
- Russian: стра́нствие
Wander
Proper noun
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