Dictionary Entry

wandered

Part of Speech: verbPronunciation: /ˈwɒndəd/Used In Literature ↓

To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

In a Sentence

“to wander over the fields”

Origin

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Common Phrases

over wanderedoff wanderedaround wanderedaway wanderedwandered eyeswandered mind

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Poetry examples for “wandered”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,

And mumbled that white hand whose ringed caress
Had wandered from her own King's golden head,
And lost itself in darkness, till she cried--

And all the coloured hills and fields were grey,
And the wind wandered seeking for the day,
And wailed as though he had found her done to death

Who, in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days;

Round glossy leaf or stump unsightly,
So from his spirit wandered out
Tendrils spreading all about,

Round glossy leaf or stump unsightly,
So from his spirit wandered out
-Tendrils spreading all about,

And wandered hither, so his stay

And wandered hither, so his stay

(Adapted from the poet Yakura Sanjin, 1769)
As I wandered through the eight hundred and eight
streets of the city,

The last car trailed the night behind,
And I in the darkness wandered about
With a flutter of hope and of dark-shut doubt