'Wander' definitions:
Definition of 'wander'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
verb
Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander]
verb
Go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"
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" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander]
verb
Definition of 'Wander'
From: GCIDE
- Wander \Wan"der\, v. t. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wander'
From: GCIDE
- Wander \Wan"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wandering.] [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind to turn.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. --Heb. xi. 37. [1913 Webster]
- He wandereth abroad for bread. --Job xv. 23. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject. [1913 Webster]
- When God caused me to wander from my father's house. --Gen. xx. 13. [1913 Webster]
- O, let me not wander from thy commandments. --Ps. cxix. 10. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wander'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amble,
- babble,
- bat,
- bat around,
- be absent,
- be in error,
- be insane,
- be mistaken,
- be wrong,
- boom,
- bum,
- circumambulate,
- count ties,
- daydream,
- depart,
- deviate,
- digress,
- divagate,
- diverge,
- dote,
- dream,
- drift,
- drivel,
- drool,
- err,
- excurse,
- fall into error,
- fantasy,
- flit,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- get sidetracked,
- go about,
- go adrift,
- go amiss,
- go astray,
- go awry,
- go the rounds,
- go woolgathering,
- go wrong,
- have a demon,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- jaunt,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- lapse,
- maunder,
- meander,
- misbelieve,
- miscalculate,
- mooch,
- moon,
- muse,
- nomadize,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- pipe-dream,
- project,
- prowl,
- rage,
- ramble,
- range,
- rant,
- rave,
- roam,
- roll,
- rove,
- run about,
- run amok,
- run mad,
- saunter,
- serve Mammon,
- slaver,
- slip,
- slip up,
- slobber,
- snake,
- stargaze,
- straggle,
- stray,
- stroll,
- stumble,
- trail,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- trip,
- turn aside,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- walk the tracks,
- wayfare,
- wind