Meaning

5 senses

  1. (intransitive)To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

    to wander over the fields

    umherstreifen, umherstreichen, herumziehen

    броди́тьbrodítʹ, слоня́тьсяslonjátʹsja, блужда́тьbluždátʹ

    мандрува́тиmandruváty, блука́тиblukáty, плута́тиplutáty

    move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

  2. (intransitive)To stray; stray from one's course; err.

    A writer wanders from his subject.

  3. (intransitive)To commit adultery.

  4. (intransitive)To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.

    umherschweifen

  5. (intransitive)Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

    abschweifen

    lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

Examples

347 sentences

  1. I wandered around for a while.

    Якийсь час я поблукав навколо.

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  2. The tourists wandered around the stores.

    ruТуристы бродили по магазинам.

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  3. We wandered round the shopping center.

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  4. She was wandering in the woods.

    ruОна бродила по лесу.

    deSie wanderte im Wald umher.

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  5. I guess my mind just wandered.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood:
Русский
By meaning 1
to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood:
to go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path:
of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention:

Origin

From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hove

From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

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Forms

wanders, wandering, wandered, wandered
Base formwander · to wander
3rd person singularwanders
Present participlewandering
Past simplewandered
Past participlewandered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywander
he, she, itwanders

Past simpleLesson

all personswandered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave wandered
he, she, ithas wandered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill wander

Synonyms

24 synonyms
roamB2cheatB2distractB2scatterB1errdrift
Close in meaning

Word family

20 related words
Relatedwandererwandering
DerivedsquanderC1bewanderforwanderinwandermiswanderoutwanderoverwanderwanderablewanderesswandering spleenwandering starwandering wombwanderlustwander offwandersomewanderstarwanderwordwandery

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

3 patterns
  • wandered around
  • wandered around town
  • wander around the

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
waltzwandwandererwanderlustwaneC2
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