Definition of "wander"

wander

/ˈwɒndə/

verb
third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered
1. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
  Quotations
  They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Hebrews 11:37
  “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
  There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. […] Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company
2. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
  Quotations
  O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms cxix:10
3. (intransitive) To commit adultery.
4. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
5. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural wanders
1. (countable) An act or instance of wandering.
2. (uncountable) The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.

Definition of "wander"

wander

verb

Quotations

Quotations

noun