wandering

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But I ain't fetching the scribe because he's had a few decades wandering around.

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Quick take

travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wandering gathered in one view.

noun

travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

adjective

migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

adjective

of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wandering.

noun

travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

adjective

migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"

See also: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving

adjective

of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

adjective

having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

Example sentences

But I ain't fetching the scribe because he's had a few decades wandering around.

Indeed, until the last ~20k years, we all existed in a near constant wandering state.

Your best hope for customers is someone wandering in, being happy and coming back again.

Neither group spends much time wandering through menus and settings, A because they don't need to, and C because they don't know how to.

Warehouse logistics are much easier when you don't have to deal with customers wandering around.

They don't even need to "protect the security of the airport" to the extent of stopping lost people from wandering in.

You don't want a large pool of former employees wandering around with executed options.

Protesting on the streets would be as useful in most cities in the US as wandering around next to a shipping lane on the open ocean.

For example...You are washing dishes but you are not really washing dishes because your mind is wandering with thoughts on what you need to do tonight at the place you need to visit.

After wandering around the MIT campus a handful of times, I began to wonder if there was any way I could possibly get involved in the ecosystem.

Probation, not being allowed to visit his family, for a misdemeanor.--Honestly, his conclusion sounds more like justice /is/ being applied evenly, it's just that it was harder for him to get the police's attention while he was wandering around in a suit and tie.

Drug addicts wandering the halls, mentally ill homeless spending their panhandling money for a night in a clean bed with a hot shower...it culminated when a local, very high, gang member mistook our room for another, and at 2 in the morning tried to force entry so he could "cut the balls off of Tony".

Every where I've worked, at some point folks would start wandering around saying "the internet is down" which was code for "help us, we can't use the web" and various folks would then figure out what their particular issue was, then that problem migrated to my home when we got always on 24/7 internet, something that started out "why would I use that?