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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

... friend nor foe?" And so saying, he ran towards the Tiber, with the purpose of drowning himself. But that paroxysm, like all the rest, proved transient; and he expressed a wish for some hiding-place, or momentary asylum, in which he might collect his unsettled spirits, and fortify his wandering resolution. Such a retreat was offered to him by his libertus Phaon, in his own rural villa, about four miles distant from Rome. The offer was accepted; and the emperor, without further preparation than that of throwing over his person ...

— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

... had arrived in the afternoon at the hour in which Mary was accustomed to sit in the easy chair with the Marchioness. The penalty had now been reduced to an hour a day, and this, as it happened, was the hour. The Marchioness had been wandering a good deal in her mind. From time to time she expressed her opinion that Brotherton would get well and would come back; and she would then tell Mary how she ought to urge her husband to behave well to ...

— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope

... planted there, of the rarest and most odoriferous kind. On the infrequent occasions when the Court was permitted to accompany him thither to share in his evening collation, it was a beautiful spectacle to see so many charming women wandering in the midst of the flowers on the terrace rising from the banks of the canal. The air was so rich with the mingled perfume of violets, orange flowers, jessamines, tuberoses, hyacinths and narcissuses that the King and his visitors were sometimes obliged ...

— The Story of Versailles • Francis Loring Payne

... I will go where no man claims me?' My daughter, every bond of your life is a debt: the right lies in the payment of that debt; it can lie nowhere else. In vain will you wander over the earth; you will be wandering forever away ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

... Desmond, wandering in moor and moss for many a month in danger of his life; and now he was on his way to James Fitz-Eustace, Lord Baltinglas, to bring him the news of Desmond's death; and with him a remnant of the clan, who were either too stout-hearted, ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

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