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Wandering   /wˈɑndərɪŋ/   Listen
Wandering

adjective
1.
Migratory.  Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving.  "The nomadic habits of the Bedouins" , "Believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future" , "Wandering tribes"
2.
Of a path e.g..  Synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding.  "Rambling forest paths" , "The river followed its wandering course" , "A winding country road"
3.
Having no fixed course.  Synonyms: erratic, planetary.  "His life followed a wandering course" , "A planetary vagabond"
noun
1.
Travelling about without any clear destination.  Synonyms: roving, vagabondage.



Wander

verb
(past & past part. wandered; pres. part. wandering)
1.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond.  "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"
2.
Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.  Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold.  "Might her husband be wandering?"
3.
Go via an indirect route or at no set pace.
4.
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.  Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind.  "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
5.
Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.  Synonyms: digress, divagate, stray.  "Her mind wanders" , "Don't digress when you give a lecture"



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"Wandering" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... The wandering musician made strenuous objection, however, to leaving the ice cream parlor. "I could eat more chok'lit cream," ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... Night was shutting in too, and the first thing I knew I wasn't anywhere in particular, with nothing in sight but an old sheep pen. I tried bunking there; but it wasn't restful, and before daylight I went wandering on again. I wanted to locate our advance and get a cup ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

... had not spoken; but her eyes had been wandering over the many splendours of the room. Suddenly she lifted them to the handsome face above her, and said in a ...
— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice

... be he would discover the fire of some Ishmaelite of the forest, a wandering "timber-cruiser," marking out new and promising fields for those he served, and surveying the scene of possible future ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne


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