wandering
UK/ˈwɒndəɹɪŋ//ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/
wandering adjective: which wanders; travelling from place to place. Also the present participle and gerund of wander.
Adjective
wandering (not comparable)
- Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
- This was the time when Venerable Master Hsing Yun first arrived in Taiwan as a wandering monk and was refused lodgings. He was nearly reduced to begging on the street. Fortunately, the old Venerable Miaoguo of Yuanguang Temple in Chungli took him in.2013, Xuan Pan, Hsing Yun, “When You Stop By the Four Permanent Exhibits”, in Robert Smitheram, transl., Buddha Land in the Human World: The Making of the Buddha Memorial Center, 1st English edition...
- Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
- a wandering kidney; a wandering liver
Noun
wandering (plural wanderings)
Also used as
wandering is also the present participle and gerund of wander.
wandering meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam
wandering in Hindi
- which wanders
- घुमक्कड़ ghumakkaṛ
wandering in Tamil
- அலைந்து திரிகிறார், அலைந்து திரிவது, அலைந்து திரிய
wandering in Marathi
- भटकत आहे
wandering in Malayalam
- അലഞ്ഞുതിരിയുന്നു, അലഞ്ഞുതിരിയുന്നത്, അലഞ്ഞുതിരിയൽ
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- wandering in Kannada
- ಅಲೆದಾಡುವಿಕೆ, ಅಲೆದಾಡುವುದು, ಅಲೆದಾಡುತ್ತಿದೆ
- wandering in Gujarati
- ભટકતા
- wandering in Nepali
- घुम्दै
Examples of wandering in a sentence
- The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird.
- Had Feltram in some of his solitary wanderings and potterings lighted upon hidden treasure?
- It was our first time at a Star Trek convention and we had an amazing time wandering around and geeking.
Forms of wandering
| plural | wanderings |
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Origin of wandering
From wander + -ing.
Words formed from wandering
- nonwandering
- prewandering
- unwandering
- wandering abscess
- wandering albatross
- wandering cell
- wandering dune
- wandering Jew
- wandering kidney
- wandering liver
- wanderingly
- wandering mouse
- wandering nerve
- wanderingness
- wandering officer
- wandering pacemaker
- wandering pennant
- wandering percher
- wandering sailor
- wandering sequence
- wandering set
- wandering spider
- wandering tattler
- outwandering
Phrases with wandering
Questions about wandering
- What does wandering mean?
- Wandering means which wanders; travelling from place to place.
- What is wandering in Hindi?
- Wandering in Hindi is घुमक्कड़ (ghumakkaṛ). See Wandering meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wandering?
- Wandering can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce wandering?
- Wandering is pronounced /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/ (US).
Words near wandering in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wandering (page history and authors); wandering (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wandering (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wandering (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wandering (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wandering (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wandering (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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