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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move about without a definite destination or purpose.
  2. v. To go by an indirect route or at no set pace; amble: wander toward town.
  3. v. To proceed in an irregular course; meander.
  4. v. To go astray: wander from the path of righteousness.
  5. v. To lose clarity or coherence of thought or expression.
  6. v. To wander across or through: wander the forests and fields.
  7. n. The act or an instance of wandering; a stroll.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In physical chemistry, to move hither and thither in every direction: said of the molecules of a liquid or of the molecules of two miscible liquids in contact with each other.
  2. To ramble with out, or as if without, any certain course or object in view; travel or move from place to place; range about; roam; rove; stroll; stray.
  3. To leave home or a settled place of abode; depart; migrate.
  4. To depart from any settled course; go astray, as from the paths of duty; stray; de viate; err.
  5. To lose one's way; be lost.
  6. To think or speak incoherently; rave; be de lirious.
  7. Synonyms 1-3. Roam, Rove, etc. (see ramble), straggle.
  8. Swerve, digress.
  9. To travel over without a cer tain course; stroll through; traverse.
  10. To lead astray; cause to lose the way or become lost.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To move without purpose; often in search of livelihood.
  2. v. intransitive To stray; stray from one's course; err.
  3. v. intransitive To commit adultery.
  4. v. intransitive To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  5. v. intransitive Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
  6. n. The act or instance of wandering.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove.
  2. v. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray.
  3. v. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave.
  4. v. rare To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
  2. v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  3. v. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
  4. v. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
  5. v. go via an indirect route or at no set pace

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian ("to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err"), from Proto-Germanic *wandrōnan (“to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind”), equivalent to wend +‎ -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander ("to wander"), German wandern ("to wander, roam, migrate"), Swedish vandra ("to wander, hike"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English wanderen, from Old English wandrian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee Heehee! Dec 22, 2008

  • frindley I wonder as I wander out into the mall
    What I shall buy Jenny and Brian and all
    Something unique, yes, but something that's small
    I wonder as I wander out into the mall

    I really should've done this a full month ago
    It's so hard to shop when we're moving so slow
    And where's the inspiration I just do not know
    I really should've done this a full month ago


    A Shopping Carol, with apologies to John Jacob Niles

    Dec 21, 2008

  • yarb Have you seen that movie, A Fish Called Wander? Mar 25, 2008

  • bmevans maybe all that futzing will pay off! Mar 25, 2008

  • factoryjoe "To move among one's resources, being receptive to alternative sources and new search ideas triggered by the materials that come into view. In our field … one may hypothesis that to WANDER promotes serendipity and enables useful sources that would not otherwise be discovered."

    -Bates, 1979a Mar 25, 2008

  • factoryjoe This will be the name of my first child. Mar 25, 2008

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