单词 | wander |
释义 | wander/ˈwɒndə /verb [no object] 1 [with adverbial of direction] Walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way: I wandered through the narrow streets...
Synonyms stroll, amble, saunter, walk, dawdle, potter, ramble, maunder, meander; roam, rove, range, knock about/around, drift, coast, gallivant, gad about, prowl, mill about/around/round; trek, trudge, stretch one's legs; Scottish & Irish stravaig informal traipse, mosey, tootle British informal mooch, bimble rare peregrinate 1.1 [with object] Travel aimlessly through or over (an area): he found her wandering the streets...
Synonyms travelling, rambling, roaming, roving, journeying, drifting, itinerant, floating, wayfaring, voyaging, touring; peripatetic, unsettled, rootless, restless, on the move, on the go, on the wing; nomadic, gypsy, Romany; vagabond, vagrant, migrant, migratory, migrating, transient, homeless, displaced archaic errant 1.2(Of a road or river) meander: the narrow road wanders along the foreshore Synonyms meander, wind, twist, turn, curve, zigzag, bend, snake, worm 2Move slowly away from a fixed point or place: please don’t wander off again figurative his attention had wandered...
Synonyms stray, depart, diverge, veer, swerve, deviate, digress, vary, drift, get separated, get sidetracked, go wool-gathering rare divagate get lost, lose one's way, go off course, lose one's bearings, go astray, go off at a tangent 3Be unfaithful to one’s regular sexual partner: he had married her and he was not going to be allowed to wander...
noun An act or instance of wandering: she’d go on wanders like that in her nightgown...
Synonyms stroll, amble, saunter, walk, roam, meander, dawdle, potter, ramble; gallivant, prowl, drift, maunder, promenade, constitutional; turn, breather, airing, trek, trudge informal traipse, mosey, tootle British informal mooch rare perambulation, peregrination OriginOld English wandrian, of West Germanic origin; related to wend and wind2.
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