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WANDERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travelling about without any clear destination
Example:
she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him
Synonyms:
roving; vagabondage; wandering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("wandering" is a kind of...):
travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wandering"):
drifting (aimless wandering from place to place)
Derivation:
wander (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a path e.g.
Example:
a winding country road
Synonyms:
meandering; rambling; wandering; winding
Classified under:
Similar:
indirect (not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no fixed course
Example:
a planetary vagabond
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Migratory
Example:
wandering tribes
Synonyms:
mobile; nomadic; peregrine; roving; wandering
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb wander
Context examples:
He turned away and I left him wandering on through the wood with his extraordinary cage around him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is very quiet. There is no sound. Sometimes it snows, and we are like wandering ghosts.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Quincey Morris tightened his belt with that quick movement which I knew so well; in our old wandering days it meant "action."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But where am I wandering to?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
After wandering about and sitting under trees with Fanny all the summer evenings, he had so well talked his mind into submission as to be very tolerably cheerful again.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I described to him how, when according to his custom he was the first down, he perceived a strange horse wandering over the moor.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
`Oumuamua may well have been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with the Solar System.
(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)
“You must do as I say,” I interrupted authoritatively, for I saw Wolf Larsen’s gaze wandering toward us from where he paced up and down with Latimer amidships.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
To Buck it was boundless delight, this hunting, fishing, and indefinite wandering through strange places.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
