--- title: W — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 3 description: The 590 words of the English dictionary under W, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / W # W — The English dictionary · page 3 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* A walkway is a path or passage for people to walk along, often raised, covered or built between buildings.[↗](../../walkway/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A covered walkway joins the two school buildings.[↗](../../walkway/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We took the moving walkway at the airport.[↗](../../walkway/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep the walkway clear of bags.[↗](../../walkway/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The treetop walkway was high above the forest.[↗](../../walkway/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bikes are not allowed on the walkway.[↗](../../walkway/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A wooden walkway crosses the wetland.[↗](../../walkway/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold the rail on the walkway.[↗](../../walkway/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **wall** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A wall is one of the sides of a room or building.[↗](../../wall/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A wall is also a fence of stone or brick around a garden, field or town.[↗](../../wall/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A wall can be a thing that stops you, like «a wall of water» or «hit a wall» (to get stuck).[↗](../../wall/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* The wall of a body part is its outer layer, like the stomach wall.[↗](../../wall/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The wall is 4 meters long and 3 meters high.[↗](../../wall/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She painted 2 walls.[↗](../../wall/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each wall has 5 pictures.[↗](../../wall/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A room has 4 walls.[↗](../../wall/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We put our drawings on the classroom wall.[↗](../../wall/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans across northern England.[↗](../../wall/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The cat jumped onto the garden wall.[↗](../../wall/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Kids queued for the climbing wall at the fair.[↗](../../wall/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The monkeys leaped higher up the walls.[↗](../../wall/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.[↗](../../wall/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.49.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wall/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.[↗](../../wall/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.3.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wall/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; (Torah LEV.14.39, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wall/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.[↗](../../wall/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.122.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wall/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall; (Prophets ISA.2.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wall/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.[↗](../../wall/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.12.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wall/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **wallaby** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A wallaby is an Australian animal like a small kangaroo that hops and carries its baby (a joey) in a pouch.[↗](../../wallaby/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (Australia, sport) The Wallabies are the national rugby union team of Australia.[↗](../../wallaby/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A wallaby hopped across the dusty track.[↗](../../wallaby/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A wallaby is smaller than a kangaroo.[↗](../../wallaby/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby wallaby peeped out of the pouch.[↗](../../wallaby/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Rock wallabies live among cliffs and boulders.[↗](../../wallaby/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Wallabies beat the All Blacks on Saturday (Australia, sport).[↗](../../wallaby/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Wallabies are marsupials.[↗](../../wallaby/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **wallah** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (India, informal) A person who does a particular job or is connected with a particular thing, as in chai-wallah (a tea seller) or rickshaw-wallah.[↗](../../wallah/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old-fashioned UK slang) A person in charge of something, often said jokingly.[↗](../../wallah/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "the computer wallah".[↗](../../wallah/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The chai-wallah poured hot sweet tea at the station.[↗](../../wallah/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In Mumbai, dabbawalas deliver thousands of lunchboxes every day.[↗](../../wallah/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask the computer wallah to fix the printer.[↗](../../wallah/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The rickshaw-wallah pedalled us through the busy market.[↗](../../wallah/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad called the man who sold ice cream "the ice-cream wallah".[↗](../../wallah/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The paper wallah threw the newspaper onto the step.[↗](../../wallah/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **wallet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A wallet is a small flat case, usually folded, for keeping money, cards and tickets.[↗](../../wallet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A digital wallet is an app on a phone that holds bank cards to pay with.[↗](../../wallet/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A wallet can also be an old word for a bag, often of cloth or leather, that a traveller carries food in.[↗](../../wallet/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He has 30 dollars in his wallet.[↗](../../wallet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She took 12 dollars out of her wallet.[↗](../../wallet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A wallet costs 15 dollars.[↗](../../wallet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How much is left in his wallet?[↗](../../wallet/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum keeps her bus pass in her wallet.[↗](../../wallet/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Sam found a wallet on the bus and gave it to the driver.[↗](../../wallet/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My wallet has a zip for coins.[↗](../../wallet/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He paid with the wallet app on his phone.[↗](../../wallet/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Here he sat down to rest, and pulling out his wallet prepared to eat his dinner.[↗](../../wallet/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **wallop** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal) To wallop means to hit something or someone very hard.[↗](../../wallop/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A wallop is a hard hit, or the loud noise of a heavy thing falling.[↗](../../wallop/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal, sport) To wallop a team means to beat them by a lot.[↗](../../wallop/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (UK slang, old) Wallop is also an old jokey word for beer.[↗](../../wallop/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The ball walloped against the window.[↗](../../wallop/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Down came the sack of potatoes with a wallop.[↗](../../wallop/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our team got walloped 7–0.[↗](../../wallop/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He gave the stuck door a wallop and it opened.[↗](../../wallop/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · That chilli sauce packs a real wallop\![↗](../../wallop/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the cartoon, the giant walloped the robot.[↗](../../wallop/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **wallow** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To roll about in mud or water, as pigs, hippos and buffalo do to cool down.[↗](../../wallow/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To let yourself stay sad or upset for a long time and enjoy feeling sorry for yourself.[↗](../../wallow/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To enjoy something a lot, like wallowing in a hot bath.[↗](../../wallow/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A muddy place where animals roll about.[↗](../../wallow/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The pigs wallowed happily in the mud.[↗](../../wallow/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Hippos wallow in rivers on hot days.[↗](../../wallow/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop wallowing and come and play.[↗](../../wallow/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She wallowed in a warm bubble bath.[↗](../../wallow/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He wallowed in self-pity after losing the match.[↗](../../wallow/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The buffalo found a muddy wallow.[↗](../../wallow/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The buffaloes generally keep to the pools and muddy places, where they lie wallowing or basking in the warm mud for hours.[↗](../../wallow/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway.[↗](../../wallow/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.20.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wallow/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.[↗](../../wallow/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings LAM.3.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wallow/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Make ye him drunken, for he magnified himself against the LORD; and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.[↗](../../wallow/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.48.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wallow/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **wallpaper** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Wallpaper is paper with patterns or colours that is stuck on walls to decorate a room.[↗](../../wallpaper/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Wallpaper is also the background picture on a computer or phone screen.[↗](../../wallpaper/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To wallpaper is to put wallpaper on walls.[↗](../../wallpaper/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We put up new wallpaper in my bedroom.[↗](../../wallpaper/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The wallpaper has stars on it.[↗](../../wallpaper/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My phone wallpaper is my dog.[↗](../../wallpaper/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad wallpapered the hall.[↗](../../wallpaper/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The old wallpaper peeled off.[↗](../../wallpaper/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Choose a wallpaper for the computer.[↗](../../wallpaper/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **wally** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (UK slang, mild) A silly or foolish person; a mild, often friendly insult.[↗](../../wally/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (Scotland, informal) Made of china or porcelain, as in a "wally dug" (a china dog ornament) or a tiled "wally close" (entrance).[↗](../../wally/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Wally is also a name, as in the books "Where's Wally?"[↗](../../wally/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") (called "Where's Waldo?" in the USA and Canada).[↗](../../wally/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't be a wally; put your coat on, it's freezing\![↗](../../wally/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I felt like a right wally when I fell off the stage.[↗](../../wally/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad, you wally, you've got your jumper on backwards\![↗](../../wally/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We spent ages trying to find Wally in the busy beach picture.[↗](../../wally/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin called me a wally for losing my shoe.[↗](../../wally/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Nan has a pair of wally dugs on her mantelpiece in Glasgow.[↗](../../wally/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **walnut** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A walnut is a nut with a wrinkly brown shell and a wrinkly seed inside that looks a bit like a little brain.[↗](../../walnut/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A walnut is the tree that grows these nuts.[↗](../../walnut/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Walnut is the hard, dark brown wood of this tree, used to make furniture.[↗](../../walnut/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I cracked the walnut with a nutcracker.[↗](../../walnut/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The inside of a walnut looks like a tiny brain.[↗](../../walnut/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad has an old walnut tree in his garden.[↗](../../walnut/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum put walnuts in the banana bread.[↗](../../walnut/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The desk is made of polished walnut.[↗](../../walnut/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some children are allergic to walnuts, so check the label.[↗](../../walnut/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A Walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore every year a plentiful crop of nuts.[↗](../../walnut/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **walrus** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A walrus is a very large sea mammal of the Arctic with long white tusks, whiskers, flippers and a thick layer of fat.[↗](../../walrus/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A walrus moustache is a big, thick, drooping moustache like the walrus's whiskers.[↗](../../walrus/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The walrus pulled itself onto the ice with its tusks.[↗](../../walrus/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Walruses live in the cold Arctic seas.[↗](../../walrus/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A walrus uses its whiskers to find clams on the sea floor.[↗](../../walrus/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A thick layer of blubber keeps the walrus warm.[↗](../../walrus/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Hundreds of walruses lay together on the beach.[↗](../../walrus/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Melting sea ice is making life harder for walruses.[↗](../../walrus/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad has a big walrus moustache.[↗](../../walrus/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We read «The Walrus and the Carpenter» by Lewis Carroll.[↗](../../walrus/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Farther on were the walruses with pig's heads, and teeth a yard long, rolling about like great worms.[↗](../../walrus/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **waltz** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A smooth ballroom dance for two people who turn round and round together, with three beats in each bar of music.[↗](../../waltz/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A piece of music for this dance.[↗](../../waltz/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To dance a waltz.[↗](../../waltz/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (informal) To walk somewhere in a confident, casual way, sometimes rudely, as if nothing matters.[↗](../../waltz/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "He waltzed in late."[↗](../../waltz/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (informal) To win or do something very easily.[↗](../../waltz/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "She waltzed through the test."[↗](../../waltz/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My grandparents danced a waltz at their wedding anniversary.[↗](../../waltz/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The band played a slow waltz.[↗](../../waltz/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We counted the waltz: one-two-three, one-two-three.[↗](../../waltz/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He waltzed into class ten minutes late without saying sorry.[↗](../../waltz/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She waltzed through the maths test in ten minutes.[↗](../../waltz/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The cat waltzed off with my sandwich\![↗](../../waltz/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We sang "Waltzing Matilda" in our Australia topic.[↗](../../waltz/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The prince and Cinderella waltzed around the ballroom.[↗](../../waltz/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I am going to teach you to jump and bow, to dance a waltz and a polka, and even to stand on your head.”[↗](../../waltz/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **wampanoag** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A Native American people of what is now Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the USA.[↗](../../wampanoag/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Their language, also called Wôpanâak.[↗](../../wampanoag/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Wampanoag lived in New England long before the Pilgrims came.[↗](../../wampanoag/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Tisquantum, also called Squanto, was a Wampanoag man.[↗](../../wampanoag/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Wampanoag showed the settlers how to grow corn.[↗](../../wampanoag/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Many Wampanoag people still live in Massachusetts.[↗](../../wampanoag/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Wampanoag language is being taught again.[↗](../../wampanoag/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Massasoit was a leader of the Wampanoag.[↗](../../wampanoag/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **wampum** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Small beads made from white and purple shells, strung together or woven into belts by Native American peoples of eastern North America.[↗](../../wampum/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Wampum belts were used to record agreements, tell histories and mark important promises between nations.[↗](../../wampum/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Later, European settlers also used wampum as a kind of money, so the word sometimes means shell money.[↗](../../wampum/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (old slang, US) Money in general — now rare and can sound disrespectful.[↗](../../wampum/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The museum showed a wampum belt made of purple and white shell beads.[↗](../../wampum/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Wampum belts were used to remember a treaty between two nations.[↗](../../wampum/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The beads were made from quahog clam shells.[↗](../../wampum/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our teacher said wampum was much more than money.[↗](../../wampum/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A speaker held up a string of wampum before giving an important message.[↗](../../wampum/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The pattern on the belt showed two paths side by side.[↗](../../wampum/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **wan** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Wan means pale and looking ill or tired.[↗](../../wan/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A wan smile is a weak, tired or sad smile.[↗](../../wan/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old, poetic) Wan light is faint and weak.[↗](../../wan/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (Mandarin, pinyin) wǎn can mean evening or late, and wàn means ten thousand; these are not English words.[↗](../../wan/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She looked wan after a week with flu.[↗](../../wan/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He gave a wan smile and said he was fine.[↗](../../wan/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The wan winter sun barely warmed the garden.[↗](../../wan/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Your face is so wan — sit down and have some water.[↗](../../wan/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The patient's cheeks were wan and thin.[↗](../../wan/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In Mandarin, "wǎn shàng hǎo" means good evening.[↗](../../wan/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **wand** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A wand is a thin stick used by a magician, wizard or fairy to do magic tricks or spells.[↗](../../wand/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A wand is any thin rod or stick-shaped tool, such as a mascara wand or a metal-detector wand.[↗](../../wand/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The fairy godmother waved her wand.[↗](../../wand/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The magician tapped the hat with his wand.[↗](../../wand/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I made a wand from a stick and glitter.[↗](../../wand/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Harry Potter's wand had a phoenix feather inside.[↗](../../wand/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Security checked her with a wand at the airport.[↗](../../wand/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · There's no magic wand to fix it — we need to work hard.[↗](../../wand/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Wands can't really do magic; magicians use tricks.[↗](../../wand/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · “So saying, she touched me with her wand, and I became what you see.[↗](../../wand/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **wander** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To walk around slowly without a clear plan or without going anywhere in particular.[↗](../../wander/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To go away from the place where you should be, often without meaning to (Don't wander off).[↗](../../wander/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (of the mind or eyes) To stop paying attention and think or look at other things (My mind wandered in the lesson).[↗](../../wander/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A wander: a slow, relaxed walk.[↗](../../wander/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We wandered around the market looking at the stalls.[↗](../../wander/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't wander off at the fair — stay with me.[↗](../../wander/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The little lamb wandered away from the flock.[↗](../../wander/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My mind started to wander during the long film.[↗](../../wander/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · If you wander from the path, you might get lost.[↗](../../wander/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Let's go for a wander by the river.[↗](../../wander/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The puppy wandered into the neighbour's garden.[↗](../../wander/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We wandered silently homeward across the mountains.[↗](../../wander/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field.[↗](../../wander/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wander/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.[↗](../../wander/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.32.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wander/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God: 'A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.[↗](../../wander/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.26.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wander/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness.[↗](../../wander/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.55.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wander/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.[↗](../../wander/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.107.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wander/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night if they have not their fill.[↗](../../wander/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.59.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wander/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/2/) **3** [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/4/) … [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/34/) - ← 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