'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
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" [syn: digress, stray, divagate, wander]

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'

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