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verb

Wander v. t. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. (R.) "(Elijah) wandered this barren waste."

Wander v. i. (past & past part. wandered; pres. part. wandering)

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. "They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins." "He wandereth abroad for bread."

To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject. "When God caused me to wander from my father's house." "O, let me not wander from thy commandments."

To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

Synonyms: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wander" Quotes from Famous Books

... take us longer coming back than it did going," remarked Blake, as he slid from his pony, and pulled the reins over the animal's head as a signal for it not to wander. "I thought we'd sure come in ...

— The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast • Victor Appleton

... legislator with a view to war? 'Yes; and next in the order of importance comes hunting, and fourth the endurance of pain in boxing contests, and in the beatings which are the punishment of theft. There is, too, the so-called Crypteia or secret service, in which our youth wander about the country night and day unattended, and even in winter go unshod and have no beds to lie on. Moreover they wrestle and exercise under a blazing sun, and they have many similar customs.' Well, but is courage only a combat against fear ...

— Laws • Plato

... of the Mosque selected slippers from an assortment of different sizes which they kept for visitors' use and tied these over our shoes with tapes. We were then permitted to enter and wander around the interior over the handsome Persian rugs which ...

— A Trip to the Orient - The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise • Robert Urie Jacob

... relatives? She must not be allowed to wander in this way," said the kind girl, with the ...

— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... battle story the boy must have known well. A few miles from Fenny Drayton is 'the rising ground of Market Bosworth,' better known as Bosworth Field. As he grew older George loved to wander over the fields that surrounded his birthplace. He 'must have often passed the site of Henry's camp, perhaps may have drunk sometimes at the well at which Richard is said to have quenched his thirst.' But although his home was near this old battlefield, the boy grew up in a ...

— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin

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