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wandering en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɒndəɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From wander + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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. 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, 1st English edition, Buddha's Light Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64:
  2. (not-comparable, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
    • a wandering kidney; a wandering liver

Deriveds

wandering spider · wandering Jew · wandering albatross · wanderingly · wandering mouse · wandering pennant · nonwandering · wandering nerve · wandering cell · wandering sailor · wandering set · wandering dune · wandering abscess · wandering kidney · wandering tattler · wandering pacemaker · unwandering · wandering liver · wandering percher · wandering sequence · wanderingness · prewandering · wandering officer

Translations (22)

la vagabundus (which wanders) · es andariego (which wanders) · gd air seachran (which wanders) · ru блужда́ющий (which wanders) · ota آزغین (which wanders) · az gəzərgi (which wanders) · hi घुमक्कड़ (which wanders) · pl wędrowny (which wanders) · la errābundus (which wanders) · el περιπλανώμενος (which wanders) · pt errante (which wanders) · bg странстващ (which wanders) · az səyyar (which wanders) · ru стра́нствующий (which wanders) · bg скитащ (which wanders) · es errante (which wanders) · la vagus (which wanders) · pt vagante (which wanders) · es peripatético (which wanders) · es errabundo (which wanders) · gl vagabundo (which wanders) · ru скита́ющийся (which wanders)

wandering en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɒndəɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From wander + -ing.

Meanings

  1. Travelling without preset route; roaming.
  2. Irregular turning of the eyes.
  3. Aimless thought.
  4. Straying from a desired path.
  5. (in-plural) Disordered speech or delirium.

Forms

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wanderings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

outwandering

Translations (26)

grc πλάνη (roaming) · ga fán (roaming) · ga seachrán (straying) · ko 방랑 (roaming) · la vagus (roaming) · bg блуждаене (straying) · mk талка (roaming) · ru стра́нствия (roaming) · mi tihoitanga (roaming) · ru скита́ния (roaming) · bg скитане (roaming) · ga fánaíocht (roaming) · gd allaban (roaming) · mi kotititanga (straying) · pl wędrowny (roaming) · bg странстване (roaming) · bg бълнуване (disordered speech) · grc ἄλη (roaming) · fr errance (roaming) · fr errement (aimless thought) · bg несвързано говорене (disordered speech) · fr errement (roaming) · fr errement (straying) · fr divagation (aimless thought) · is vapp (roaming) · ru блужда́ния (roaming)

wandering en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɒndəɹɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From wander + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wander
    form of wander