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# wandering

«wandering» in Mova's school dictionary: **a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (wanderings); adjective (a wandering knight)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wandering is a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wandering/#m1)

2) Wandering means moving from place to place with no fixed home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wandering/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a long journey from place to place, often in tales; a wandering person has no home

### examples

- After his wanderings, he came home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wandering/#x1)
- The wandering prince had no fixed home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wandering/#x2)
- He sat down, tired from his wanderings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wandering/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/10/)
- [About 700 years ago a wandering people, the Aztecs or Mexica, settled in the Valley of Mexico.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/0/)
- [And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1191/)
- [Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.925/)
- [As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.751/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wandering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wandering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.