wand
UK/wɒnd//wɑnd/
wand noun: a hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
Noun
wand (plural wands)
- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- Then all of a sudden a number of armed men arranged in companies, and marshalled by officers who held ivory wands in their hands, came running swiftly towards us, having, so far as I could make out, emerged from the face of the precipice like ants from their burrows.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
- Love is that blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart.1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC
- An instrument shaped like a wand.
- curling wand
- Shop vac serves as blower to force vermiculite in fiber drum up through vacuum-cleaner wand and hose into wall opening1975, Popular Science, volume 207, number 4, page 135
- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow-wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 17
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- Without question, he is the best left-footed player I've ever played with. Along with his wand of a left foot he also has great pace and can be as hard as nails.2013 October 17, Lee McCulloch, Simp-Lee the Best: My Autobiography, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN
- Shortly afterwards, Thomas lined up a corner and with his wand of a right foot, landed it on the head of Campbell to get Everton's second.2019 February 15, Chris Sweeney, Mad Dog Gravesen, eBook Partnership, →ISBN
Verb
wand (third-person singular simple present wands, present participle wanding, simple past and past participle wanded)
Proper noun capitalized: Wand
Wand (plural Wands)
- A surname.
wand meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
wand in Hindi
- hand-held narrow rod
- छड़ी chaṛī
wand in Tamil
- மந்திரக்கோல், மெல்லிய கழி, தடி, வருடுகோல்
wand in Urdu
- hand-held narrow rod
- چَھڑی chaṛī
wand in Bengali
- ওয়ান্ড
More languagesFewer languages
- wand in Malayalam
- മന്ത്രക്കോൽ, സംഗീത പ്രമാണിയുടെ കൈയിലെ താളക്കോൽ, ചെങ്കോൽ
- wand in Kannada
- ಯಕ್ಷಿಣಿಕೋಲು, ಮಾಂತ್ರಿಕದಂಡ, ಮಾಟಗಾರನ ಕೋಲು, ಸಂಗೀತ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕನ ಕೋಲು
- wand in Odia
- ୱାଣ୍ଡ୍, ୱାଣ୍ଡ
- wand in Nepali
- वान्ड
- wand in Arabic
- عَصًا ʕaṣan
- wand in Thai
- ไม้ máai
- wand in Vietnamese
- đũa, que
Examples of wand in a sentence
- We have to work hard together to find a solution. There is no magic wand.
- Most say their epidural was like a magic wand that eliminated their pain in minutes.
- You have just turned chaos into comedy gold with a flick of your laughter wand.
Synonyms of wand
Forms of wand
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wands |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wands |
| present participle | wanding |
| past participle | wanded |
| past | wanded |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wands |
Origin of wand
From Middle English wand, wond, from Old Norse vǫndr (“switch, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, twist, wind, braid”). Cognate with Icelandic vendi (“wand”), Danish vånd (“wand, switch”), German Wand (“wall, septum”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (wandus, “rod”).
Various origins: * A nickname for a shy or short-sighted person, from Old English wand (“mole”). * Borrowed from German Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver or cloth cutter, from Middle High German gewant (“cloth, garment”) (representing modern Gewand (“garment”)). * Borrowed from Dutch Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a glove maker, from Middle Dutch want (“glove”).
Words formed from wand
Words that rhyme with wand
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Questions about wand
- What does wand mean?
- Wand means a hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- What is wand in Hindi?
- Wand in Hindi is छड़ी (chaṛī). See Wand meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wand?
- Wand can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce wand?
- Wand is pronounced /wɒnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wand?
- The plural of wand is wands.
Words near wand in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wand (page history and authors); Wand (page history and authors); wand (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wand (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wand (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wand (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wand (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wand (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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