noun
- Travelling about without any clear destination.
- usage: "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
- synonyms: roving, vagabondage
verb
- Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
- usage: "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"
- Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.
- usage: "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering"
- Go via an indirect route or at no set pace.
- usage: "After dinner, we wandered into town"
- synonyms: wander
- To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.
- usage: "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
- Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.
- usage: "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
adjective
- Migratory.
- usage: "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
- Of a path e. G..
- usage: "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"
- synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding
- Having no fixed course.
- usage: "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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