wander

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To walk around slowly with no particular purpose or destination.

   After dinner, we wandered into town.

2. 2
   verb

   To move away from the right path, subject, or point.

   The speaker kept wandering off the topic.

3. 3
   noun

   A slow, relaxed walk with no fixed destination.

   Let's go for a wander in the park.

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”).

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