wander

wander: verb

1 move slowly around a place/go from place to place

ADVERB

▪ slowly

▪ aimlessly

▪ disconsolately, restlessly

▪ happily

▪ at will, freely

▪ The cattle are allowed to wander freely.

▪ just, simply

▪ Simply wandering is a pleasure in itself.

▪ far, farther (esp. AmE), further (esp. BrE), further afield (esp. BrE)

▪ One day she wandered further afield.

▪ about (esp. BrE), across, along, around, away, back, in, off, out, over, round (esp. BrE)

▪ He just wandered in one day and asked for a job.

VERB + WANDER

▪ be free to

▪ Visitors are free to wander through the gardens and woods.

▪ allow sb/sth to, let sb/sth

▪ How could you let him wander off like that?

PREPOSITION

▪ across, all over, along, among, around, down, in, into, out of, round (esp. BrE), through, towards/toward

▪ Don't go wandering all over the house!

▪ He wandered into a bar and ordered a drink.

PHRASES

▪ find sb wandering

▪ They found him wandering around aimlessly.

2 stop concentrating

ADVERB

▪ a little

VERB + WANDER

▪ begin to

▪ His attention was beginning to wander.

▪ allow sth to, let sth

▪ Lisa let her mind wander a little.

PREPOSITION

▪ from, to

▪ My thoughts wandered from the exam questions to my interview the next day.

Wander is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑attention, ↑chicken, ↑dog, ↑eye, ↑gaze, ↑ghost, ↑goat, ↑mind

Wander is used with these nouns as the object: ↑corridor, ↑countryside, ↑earth, ↑hallway, ↑neighbourhood, ↑street

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Synonyms:

Ramble, roam, rove, stroll, range, range about, gad about, straggle / Deviate, swerve, stray, digress, turn aside, go astray, straggle / Be delirious, be crazed, rave, ramble

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Wander — bezeichnet: Wander AG, eine Schweizer Lebensmittelfirma, Tochterunternehmen von Associated British Foods einen Begriff aus der Übertragungstechnik, siehe Jitter. Wander ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Albert Wander (1818–1893),… … Deutsch Wikipedia
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.] [1913 Webster] 1. To ramble here and there without any certain … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wander — (v.) O.E. wandrian move about aimlessly, wander, from W.Gmc. *wandrojan (Cf. O.Fris. wondria, M.L.G., M.Du. wanderen, Ger. wandern to wander, a variant form of the root represented in O.H.G. wantalon to walk, wander ), from root *wend to turn… … Etymology dictionary
wander — wander, stray, roam, ramble, rove, range, prowl, gad, gallivant, traipse, meander can mean to move about more or less aimlessly or without a plan from place to place or from point to point. Most of these verbs may imply walking, but most are not… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
wander — [v1] move about aimlessly aberrate, amble, circumambulate, circumlocute, circumnutate, cruise, deviate, divagate, diverge, drift, float, follow one’s nose*, gad*, gallivant*, globe trot, hike, hopscotch*, jaunt, maunder, meander, peregrinate,… … New thesaurus
wander — [wän′dər] vi. [ME wandren < OE wandrian, akin to Ger wandern, akin ? to WEND, WIND1] 1. to move or go about aimlessly, without plan or fixed destination; ramble; roam 2. to go to a destination in a casual way or by an indirect route; idle;… … English World dictionary
Wander — Wan der, v. t. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] [Elijah] wandered this barren waste. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wander — index digress, perambulate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
wander — ► VERB 1) walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way. 2) move slowly away from a fixed point or place. ► NOUN ▪ an act or spell of wandering. DERIVATIVES wanderer noun. ORIGIN Old English, related to WEND … English terms dictionary
wander — wan|der1 S3 [ˈwɔndə US ˈwa:ndər] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(without direction)¦ 2¦(move away)¦ 3¦(mind/thoughts)¦ 4¦(conversation)¦ 5 somebody s mind is wandering 6¦(eyes)¦ 7¦(road/river)¦ 8¦(hands)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin: wandrian] … Dictionary of contemporary English
wander — I UK [ˈwɒndə(r)] / US [ˈwɑndər] verb Word forms wander : present tense I/you/we/they wander he/she/it wanders present participle wandering past tense wandered past participle wandered ** 1) [intransitive/transitive] to travel from place to place … English dictionary

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