wandering

English

Etymology

wander +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒndəɹɪŋ/
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Adjective

wandering (not comparable)

Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
- 2013, Pan, Xuan; Hsing Yun, “When You Stop By the Four Permanent Exhibits”, in Robert Smitheram, transl., Buddha Land in the Human World: The Making of the Buddha Memorial Center‎, First English edition, Buddha's Light Publishing, →ISBN, LCCN 2013001357, OCLC 825646296, page 64:
  This was the time when Venerable Master Hsing Yun first arrived in Taiwan as a wandering monk and was refused lodgings. He was nearly reduced to begging on the street. Fortunately, the old Venerable Miaoguo of Yuanguang Temple in Chungli took him in.
(medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
a wandering kidney; a wandering liver

Derived terms

terms derived from wandering

unwandering
wandering abscess
wandering albatross
wandering cell
wandering dune
wandering Jew
wandering kidney
wandering liver
wandering mouse
wandering pacemaker
wandering pennant
wandering percher
wandering sequence
wandering set
wandering spider
wandering tattler

Translations

which wanders

Azerbaijani: səyyar, gəzərgi
Bulgarian: скитащ (bg) (skitašt), странстващ (bg) (stranstvašt)
Galician: vagabundo
Greek: περιπλανώμενος (el) m (periplanómenos)
Latin: vagus, errābundus, vagabundus (Medieval)
Portuguese: errante (pt), vagante (pt)
Russian: блужда́ющий (ru) (bluždájuščij), стра́нствующий (ru) (stránstvujuščij), скита́ющийся (ru) (skitájuščijsja)
Spanish: errabundo (es), andariego (es), errante (es), peripatético (es)

Noun

wandering (plural wanderings)

Travelling without preset route; roaming.
Irregular turning of the eyes.
Aimless thought.
Straying from a desired path.
(chiefly in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.

Derived terms

outwandering

Translations

roaming

Bulgarian: скитане (bg) n (skitane), странстване n (stranstvane)
French: errement (fr) m, errance (fr) f
Greek:
Ancient: πλάνη f (plánē), ἄλη f (álē)
Icelandic: vapp
Irish: fán m, fánaíocht f
Korean: 방랑 (ko) (bangnang)
Latin: vagus
Macedonian: талка (talka)
Maori: tihoitanga
Polish: wędrowny (pl)
Russian: блужда́ния (ru) n pl (bluždánija), стра́нствия (ru) n pl (stránstvija), скита́ния (ru) n pl (skitánija)
Scottish Gaelic: allaban m

turning of eyes

aimless thought

French: errement (fr) m, divagation (fr) f

straying

Bulgarian: блуждаене (bg) n (bluždaene)
French: errement (fr) m
Irish: seachrán m
Maori: kotititanga

disordered speech

Bulgarian: бълнуване (bg) n (bǎlnuvane), несвързано говорене n (nesvǎrzano govorene)

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Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} תעיה‎ (t'ìyah)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} vagar (es)

Verb

wandering

present participle of wander

Anagrams

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