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Definition of Wander

Wander

  1. 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.
  2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
  3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
  4. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.

Wander Quotations

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

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 have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
Henry Rollins

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
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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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