Definition of Wander

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Wander

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.

To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.

To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

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Wander Quotations

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.
Payne Stewart

Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
Bruce Springsteen

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Georges Bataille

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
Andrew Wyeth

Wander Translations

wander in Afrikaans is swerf
wander in Danish is strejfe om
wander in Dutch is rondtrekken, trekken, rondreizen
wander in Finnish is vaeltaa
wander in French is vaguer, errer, parcourent, parcourons, parcourez
wander in German is umherschweifen
wander in Portuguese is vagueie
wander in Swedish is vandra

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