What is "wandering" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does wandering mean in English? Meaning of wandering definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "wandering" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "wandering": travelling about without any clear destination

Noun

  • Meaning: travelling about without any clear destination
  • Example: she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him
  • Synonyms: roving vagabondage wandering
  • Hyponyms: drifting
  • Hypernyms: travel traveling travelling
  • Meaning of "wandering": migratory

    Adjective

  • Meaning: migratory
  • Example: a restless mobile society the nomadic habits of the Bedouins believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future wandering tribes
  • Synonyms: mobile nomadic peregrine roving wandering
  • Similar: unsettled
  • Meaning of "wandering": of a path e.g.

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of a path e.g.
  • Example: meandering streams rambling forest paths the river followed its wandering course a winding country road
  • Synonyms: meandering rambling wandering winding
  • Similar: indirect
  • Meaning of "wandering": having no fixed course

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having no fixed course
  • Example: an erratic comet his life followed a wandering course a planetary vagabond
  • Synonyms: erratic planetary wandering
  • Similar: unsettled
  • Adjective: Which wanders; travelling from place to place.(medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions. a wandering kidney; a wandering liver
  • Synonyms:

    nomadic, roving, meandering, straying, rambling, unsettled, deviating, vagrant, migrant, traveling, vagabond, roaming, wayfaring, devious, digressive, errant, erratic, excursive, migratory, planetary, drifting, landloping, winding, roving, wayfaring, roaming, traveling, jaunting, strolling, trekking, itinerant, mobile, migratory, drifting,

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