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wandering

adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈwɒndəɹɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ//

Which wanders; travelling from place to place.

adjective

  1. 1

    Which wanders; travelling from place to place.

    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.

  2. 2

    Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.

    a wandering kidney; a wandering liver

Etymology

From wander + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    Travelling without preset route; roaming.

  2. 2

    Irregular turning of the eyes.

  3. 3

    Aimless thought.

  4. 4

    Straying from a desired path.

  5. 5

    Disordered speech or delirium.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of wanderpresent participle and gerund of wander

Forms

plural
wanderings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).