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scamander

scamander verb: to wander about with no fixed purpose.

Verb

scamander (third-person singular simple present scamanders, present participle scamandering, simple past and past participle scamandered)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To wander about with no fixed purpose.

Proper noun capitalized: Scamander

Scamander

  1. (historical) A river in modern Turkey near the site of Troy.
  2. A town in Break O'Day Council, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Synonyms of scamander

Forms of scamander

third-person singular presentscamanders
present participlescamandering
past participlescamandered
pastscamandered

Origin of scamander

Possibly in reference to the winding course of the Scamander river.

From Latin Scamander, from Ancient Greek Σκάμανδρος (Skámandros).

Words formed from scamander

Questions about scamander

What does scamander mean?
Scamander means to wander about with no fixed purpose.
What part of speech is scamander?
Scamander can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of scamander?
The past tense of scamander is scamandered.

Words near scamander in the dictionary

  1. Scalzos
  2. scam
  3. scam artist
  4. scam artistry
  5. scam artists
  6. scamander
  7. scamandered
  8. scamandering
  9. scamanders
  10. Scamazon
  11. scambait

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scamander (page history and authors); Scamander (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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