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wander

verbenomcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈwɒndə//
  • États-Unis//ˈwɑndɚ//
  • //ˈwʊndə//
  • //ˈwʌndə//

To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

verbe

  1. 1

    To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

    to wander over the fields

    They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

    “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

    There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

  2. 2

    To stray; stray from one's course; err.

    A writer wanders from his subject.

    O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

  3. 3

    To commit adultery.

  4. 4

    To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.

  5. 5

    Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

Étymologie

From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

nom

  1. 1

    An act or instance of wandering.

    to go for a wander in the park

  2. 2

    Deviation from a correct or normal value.

    baseline wander in ECG signals

Formes

pluriel
wanders
passé
wandered
participe passé
wandered
participe présent
wandering
3ᵉ personne du singulier
wanders
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).