WANDER

digress, stray, divagate, wander

(verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; “She always digresses when telling a story”; “her mind wanders”; “Don’t digress when you give a lecture”

roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; “The gypsies roamed the woods”; “roving vagabonds”; “the wandering Jew”; “The cattle roam across the prairie”; “the laborers drift from one town to the next”; “They rolled from town to town”

weave, wind, thread, meander, wander

(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; “the river winds through the hills”; “the path meanders through the vineyards”; “sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body”

wander

(verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace; “After dinner, we wandered into town”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Wander (plural Wanders)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wander is the 25989^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 944 individuals. Wander is most common among White (90.25%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned

Etymology

Verb

wander (third-person singular simple present 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

(intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.

(intransitive) To commit adultery.

Synonym: 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.

Synonym: drift

Noun

wander (countable and uncountable, plural wanders)

(countable) The act or instance of wandering.

(uncountable) The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.

Hyponym: polar wander

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned

Source: Wiktionary

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Wan"der, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wandering.] Etym: [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind to turn.]

1. 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. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23.

2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject. When God caused me to wander from my father's house. Gen. xx. 13. O, let me not wander from thy commandments. Ps. cxix. 10.

3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

Syn.

– To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart.

Wan"der, v. t.

Definition: To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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