wander

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Thus, a man with money at his command could wander from the Dutch room, where, in the picturesque surroundings of a Dutch kitchen, croupiers in the costume of Holland ministered to his needs, to the Japanese room, where his coin would be raked in by quite passable imitations of the Samurai.

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  1. intransitive verb To move about without a definite destination or purpose.
  2. intransitive verb To go by an indirect route or at no set pace; amble: wander toward town.
  3. intransitive verb To proceed in an irregular course; meander.
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  • The book is a rambling wander, although an impressive achievement at over 300 pages. preview chapter and podcast interview was posted at USA Today. —  Comics Worth Reading
  • The second most likely place for a casual user to wander is the Network Card Configuration Page. —  technorabble
  • Then began to wander, and wander, and wander some more. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • For anyone who likes to travel or wander, the GPS satellite navigation systems that have been on the market fo ... —  We Blog A Lot
  • On "Whale Song", singer Will Sprott's well-worded tale about youth, love, and one's need to wander is a skeletal example of his slick songwriting, managing to bring full resolve to his various tangents by the song's end. —  Mesh Magazine
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  1. Middle English wanderen, from Old English wandrian.

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  1. from Middle English wanderen, wan-dren, wondrien, from Anglo-Saxon wandrian, wander, = Old Saxon wandlōn = Dutch wandelen = Old High German wantalōn, Middle High German G. wandern, wandeln = Swedish vandra = Danish vandre, wander, travel, walk; a freq. form, as sociated with wend (Anglo-Saxon wendan, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon windan (preterit wand), wind, turn, twist: see wind, wend.
 

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