wandering

English

Etymology

From wander +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

wandering (not comparable)

1. Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
   • 2013, Xuan Pan, 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^[1], 1st English edition, Buddha's Light Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

2. (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 sailor
• 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)
• Scottish Gaelic: air seachran
• Spanish: errabundo (es), andariego (es), errante (es), peripatético (es)

Noun

wandering (plural wanderings)

1. Travelling without preset route; roaming.
2. Irregular turning of the eyes.
3. Aimless thought.
4. Straying from a desired path.
5. (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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Translations to be checked

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

Verb

wandering

1. present participle and gerund of wander

Anagrams

• wardening