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bewander

bewander verb: to wander around or about; roam.

Verb

bewander (third-person singular simple present bewanders, present participle bewandering, simple past and past participle bewandered)

  1. (intransitive) To wander around or about; roam.
    • Or 'twas wont to be so, / Just a few years ago, / At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, / That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack […]1839, The New Sporting Magazine
    • The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire

Forms of bewander

third-person singular presentbewanders
present participlebewandering
past participlebewandered
pastbewandered

Origin of bewander

From be- (“around, about”) + wander. Compare Saterland Frisian bewonderje, Middle Dutch bewanderen, German bewandern.

Questions about bewander

What does bewander mean?
Bewander means to wander around or about; roam.
What part of speech is bewander?
Bewander is a verb.
What is the past tense of bewander?
The past tense of bewander is bewandered.

Words near bewander in the dictionary

  1. bewailments
  2. bewails
  3. bewaistcoated
  4. bewake
  5. bewallow
  6. bewander
  7. bewandered
  8. bewandering
  9. bewanders
  10. beward
  11. bewards

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