3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
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.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
--Heb. xi 37.
He wandereth abroad for bread. --Job xv 23.
2. To go away to depart; to stray off to deviate; to go
astray; as a writer wanders from his subject.
When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
--Gen. xx 13.
O, let me not wander from thy commandments. --Ps.
cxix. 10.
3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
to rave; as the mind wanders.
Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err;
swerve; deviate; depart.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wander \Wan"der\, v. t.
To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to
stroll through [R.] ``[Elijah] wandered this barren waste.''
--Milton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wander
v 1: wander about aimlessly; "The gypsies roamed the woods" [syn:
{swan}, {stray}, {roam}, {cast}, {ramble}, {rove}, {range},
{drift}, {vagabond}]
2: 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}]
3: turn aside esp. from the main subject of attention or
course of argument in writing or speaking; "She always
digresses when telling a story" [syn: {digress}, {stray},
{divagate}]
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