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The synonyms of “Wander” are: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, meander, thread, weave, wind, betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, digress, divagate, stroll, amble, saunter, walk, dawdle, potter, maunder, travelling, roaming, journeying, drifting, voyaging, touring, twist, turn, curve, zigzag, bend, snake, worm, depart, diverge, veer, swerve, deviate, vary, get separated, get sidetracked, go wool-gathering, get lost, lose one's way, go off course, lose one's bearings, go astray, go off at a tangent
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “wander” as a noun can have the following definitions:
amble | A walk at a slow, relaxed pace, especially for pleasure. A peaceful riverside amble. |
meander | An indirect or aimless journey. The river flows in sweeping meanders. |
potter | A craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter s wheel and bakes them it a kiln. An afternoon s potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich. |
ramble | An aimless amble on a winding course. |
roam | An aimless walk. Did you get to explore the city or have a roam around Bath. |
saunter | A leisurely walk (usually in some public place. He walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn t a care in the world. |
stroll | A leisurely walk (usually in some public place. We took a stroll in the garden. |
walk | The act of walking somewhere. The street lamps illuminated the riverside walk. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “wander” as a verb can have the following definitions:
amble | Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace. They ambled along the riverbank. |
bend | Bend a joint. Bend the rod. |
betray | Deliver to an enemy by treachery. Her smile betrayed her true feelings. |
cast | Make a moulded object by casting metal. Lemmings cast themselves off the cliff. |
cheat | Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage. She cheats on her husband. |
cheat on | Defeat someone through trickery or deceit. |
cuckold | Of a man make another man a cuckold by having a sexual relationship with his wife. In the novel Humberto cuckolds his employer. |
curve | Form or cause to form a curve. The road curved sharply. |
dawdle | Move slowly and idly in a particular direction. She mustn t dawdle she had to make the call now. |
depart | Wander from a direct or straight course. They departed for Germany. |
deviate | Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course. The river was deviated to prevent flooding. |
digress | Wander from a direct or straight course. Don t digress when you give a lecture. |
divagate | Stray or digress. Yeats divagated into Virgil s territory only once. |
diverge | Depart from (a set course or standard. The lines start to diverge here. |
drift | Move in an unhurried fashion. The stock market drifted upward. |
drifting | Drive slowly and far afield for grazing. |
get lost | Give certain properties to something. |
get separated | Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner. |
get sidetracked | Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner. |
go astray | Follow a procedure or take a course. |
go off at a tangent | Be sounded, played, or expressed. |
go off course | Continue to live through hardship or adversity. |
go wool-gathering | Be or continue to be in a certain condition. |
journeying | Travel upon or across. |
lose one's bearings | Retreat. |
lose one's way | Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind. |
maunder | Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice. Dennis maundered on about the wine. |
meander | (of language, thought, etc.) proceed aimlessly or with little purpose. A river that meandered gently through a meadow. |
potter | Work lightly. I m quite happy just to potter about by myself here. |
ramble | Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner. Willy rambled on about Norman archways. |
range | Obtain the range of a target by adjustment after firing past it or short of it or by the use of radar or laser equipment. Japan ranged herself against the European nations. |
roam | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. He let his eyes roam her face. |
roaming | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. |
roll | Flatten something by passing a roller over it or by passing it between rollers. Huge tears rolled down her cheeks. |
rove | (of a person’s eyes) look in changing directions in order to see something thoroughly. The policeman s eyes roved around the pub. |
saunter | Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim. Adam sauntered into the room. |
snake | Form a snake like pattern. The river snakes through the valley. |
stray | Wander from a direct course or at random. The military arrested anyone who strayed into the exclusion zone. |
stroll | Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim. I strolled around the city. |
swan | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Swanning around Europe nowadays are we. |
swerve | Change or cause to change direction abruptly. O Hara swerved the motorcycle round the corner. |
thread | Pass a thread through. She had her eyebrows threaded. |
touring | Make a tour of a certain place. |
travelling | Travel upon or across. |
turn | To break and turn over earth especially with a plow. Turn a page of a book. |
twist | Form into twists. The cord is all twisted. |
vagabond | Wander about as or like a vagabond. Roving vagabonds. |
vary | Differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class. The properties vary in price. |
veer | (of the wind) change direction clockwise around the points of the compass. An oil tanker that had veered off course. |
voyaging | Travel on water propelled by wind or by other means. |
walk | Allow or enable a batter to walk. We walked instead of driving. |
weave | Interlace by or as if by weaving. Some thick mohairs can be difficult to weave. |
wind | Catch the scent of get wind of. Paddy s wife handed him their six month old daughter to be winded. |
worm | Treat an animal with a preparation designed to expel parasitic worms. I wormed my right hand between my body and the earth. |
zigzag | Travel along a zigzag path. The river zigzags through the countryside. |
aimlessly | Without purpose or direction. We wandered aimlessly round Venice. |
amble | Walk leisurely. A peaceful riverside amble. |
ambulate | Walk; move about. People who make use of crutches to ambulate. |
divagation | A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern. |
drift | Cause to be carried by a current. Snow drifting several feet high. |
feral | Wild and menacing. We expected bearded ferals chaining themselves to trees in protest. |
flit | Move swiftly and lightly. The hummingbird flitted among the branches. |
flotsam | People or things that have been rejected or discarded as worthless. The room was cleared of boxes and other flotsam. |
gad | Go from place to place in the pursuit of pleasure. He had heard that I was gadding about with an airline stewardess. |
gallivant | Go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment. She quit her job to go gallivanting around the globe. |
nomad | A person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer. The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes. |
nomadic | Living the life of a nomad; wandering. The nomadic habits of the Bedouins. |
peripatetic | Of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy. Peripatetic country preachers. |
plod | Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud. A bunch of plods arrived offering me a lift to the cop shop. |
promenade | Take a promenade through a place. The governor of Utah promenades the daughter of the Maryland governor. |
ramble | Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner. As a boy I rambled the fells around Dent. |
rambling | Of a path e.g. A rambling man. |
roam | Travel unsystematically over, through, or about (a place. Gangs of youths roamed the streets unopposed. |
rove | Travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander. The policeman s eyes roved around the pub. |
saunter | A leisurely walk (usually in some public place. A quiet saunter down the road. |
sidetrack | A railway branch line or siding. The effort at reform has been sidetracked for years. |
stray | A stray person or thing especially a domestic animal. She was killed by a stray bullet. |
stroll | Achieve a sporting victory without effort. We took a stroll in the garden. |
trudge | A difficult or laborious walk. I trudged up the stairs. |
vagabond | Wander about as or like a vagabond. Pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea. |
vagrant | Relating to or living the life of a vagrant. Vagrant whales. |
wanderer | A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine. He is a longtime seaman a rootless wanderer. |
wandering | Travelling aimlessly from place to place; itinerant. Wandering tribes. |
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