Dictionary

wander

see also: Wander

Pronunciation

Verb

wander (wanders, present participle wandering; past and past participle wandered)

(intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
to wander over the fields
- Bible, Epistle to the Hebrews xi.37:
  They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
  “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 5661828 ↗:
  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.
Synonyms: err, roam
(intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
A writer wanders from his subject.
- Bible, Psalms cxix.10:
  O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
(intransitive) To commit adultery.
Synonyms: cheat
(intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
(intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
Synonyms: drift

Conjugation

Conjugation of wander

infinitive	(to) wander
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	wander	wandered
2nd-person singular	* wander, wanderest^*	wandered, wanderedst#English\|wanderedst*
3rd-person singular	wanders, wandereth^*	wandered#English\|wandered
plural	wander

subjunctive	wander

imperative	wander	—

participle> participles	wandering	wandered
^* Archaic or obsolete.