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Wandering

adjective

1.

Migratory. Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving. "The nomadic habits of the Bedouins" , "Believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future" , "Wandering tribes"

2.

Of a path e.g.. Synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding. "Rambling forest paths" , "The river followed its wandering course" , "A winding country road"

3.

Having no fixed course. Synonyms: erratic, planetary. "His life followed a wandering course" , "A planetary vagabond"

noun

1.

Travelling about without any clear destination. Synonyms: roving, vagabondage.

Wander

verb

(past & past part. wandered; pres. part. wandering)

1.

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond. "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"

2.

Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage. Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold. "Might her husband be wandering?"

3.

Go via an indirect route or at no set pace.

4.

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind. "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

5.

Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. Synonyms: digress, divagate, stray. "Her mind wanders" , "Don't digress when you give a lecture"

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"Wandering" Quotes from Famous Books

... sometimes wish we were settled,' said Lucy; 'but I have been used to wandering all my life, and do not mind it as much as you would, perhaps. We scarcely stay long enough in one place to get attached to it; and some places are so disagreeable, that it is ...

— Abbeychurch - or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit • Charlotte M. Yonge

... the aim and end of a thing which is of sole importance; in this case the aim and end being the happiness and welfare of the child. And that is the point which I want to harp upon, the necessity of keeping the goal in view and of not wandering off into side issues. It was for the sake of the end, namely, obtaining happiness, that I tried to show in my articles upon marriage how common sense might secure this desired state. And it was to the end of what might be best for England that ...

— Three Things • Elinor Glyn

... Swann, too, had known well that false joy which a friend can give us, or some relative of the woman we love, when on his arrival at the house or theatre where she is to be found, for some ball or party or 'first-night' at which he is to meet her, he sees us wandering outside, desperately awaiting some opportunity of communicating with her. He recognises us, greets us familiarly, and asks what we are doing there. And when we invent a story of having some urgent message to give to his relative or friend, he assures us that nothing ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... mistaken and that it was the man, not the truth, that was at fault. Not knowing this, and finding the experience of the ages at variance with his innate sense of justice, he was continually a prey to agonizing reveries; and, living by himself, and wandering through the country at all hours of the day and night, wrapped in thoughts undreamed of by his fellows, he gave more and more credit to the tales of sorcery ...

— Mauprat • George Sand

... through the mountains, the king traveling part of the way on horseback and partly in a litter slung between two mules, through mud and a constant downpour of rain. During the evening of the second day they lost the trail, which was only rediscovered after much wandering. ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

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