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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɒndə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈwɑndɚ/
• IPA: (West Midlands, especially Birmingham) /ˈwʊndə/, /ˈwʌndə/
• 韻: -ɒndə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: wan‧der

動詞

wander (third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered)

1. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

   Synonyms: err, roam

   to wander over the fields

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37:

     They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “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.

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     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. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.

   A writer wanders from his subject.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms cxix:10:

     O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

3. (intransitive) To commit adultery.

   Synonym: cheat

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

   Synonym: drift

5. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

   Synonyms: distract, scatter

派生語

名詞

wander (countable and uncountable, plural wanders)

1. (countable) An act or instance of wandering.

   to go for a wander in the park

2. (uncountable, of a value, signal or similar) Deviation from a correct or normal value.

   Hyponym: polar wander

   baseline wander in ECG signals

アナグラム

• Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned