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Definition: Wandering |
WanderingAdjective1. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes". 2. Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road". 3. Having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond". Noun1. Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wandering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Bible | Wandering of the Israelites in the wilderness in consequence of their rebellious fears to enter the Promised Land (Num. 14:26-35). They wandered for forty years before they were permitted to cross the Jordan (Josh. 4:19; 5:6). The record of these wanderings is given in Num. 33:1-49. Many of the stations at which they camped cannot now be identified. Questions of an intricate nature have been discussed regarding the "Wanderings," but it is enough for us to take the sacred narrative as it stands, and rest assured that "He led them forth by the right way" (Ps. 107:1-7, 33-35). (See WILDERNESS.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Transportation | A slow and apparently steady unordered change in heading. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: WanderingSynonyms: erratic (adj), meandering(a) (adj), mobile (adj), nomadic (adj), peregrine (adj), planetary (adj), rambling (adj), wandering(a) (adj), winding (adj), roving (n), vagabondage (n). (additional references) |
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Deviation | Wandering; Verb: vagrancy, evagation; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad. |
Insanity | Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm. |
Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory. | |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
Unconformity | Adjective: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny. |
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Screenplays | Hey, old girl, you're wandering off a bit. (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez) Fix it to keep his mind from wandering! (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn) Unlike you, I do not spend my time wandering through sewers (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) So, I was thinking I might be able to find my own truth if I spend ten years wandering. (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; Måns Gahrton) There's a Retail Rodeo special on all bulk candy on aisle 4. Ghouls and goblins, witches and warlocks, wandering these aisles day after day, I put a Halloween curse on your hellish heads (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White) | |
Lyrics | Just like the them I'm a wandering, wondering runaway (Looking For A Place To Land; performing artist: Dakota Moon) Wandering and dreaming (Matilda Mother; performing artist: Pink Floyd) Ooh I've been wandering round (You're My Best Friend; performing artist: QUEEN; writing credit: John Deacon) Wait only for my bootheels to be wandering (Mr. Tambourine Man; performing artist: The Byrds; writing credit: Bob Dylan) I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth (I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band); performing artist: The Moody Blues) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wandering Minstrel Show (1973) Wandering Skis (1952) The Wandering Father (1938) München-Berlin Wandering (1927) Wandering Girls (1927) | |
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 | Person wandering through the Valley of the Giants. Credit: Unknown. |  | A strange company, wizard, and ghostly, wandering over the snow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. astronomer to check wandering moon during eclipse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wandering Elk #18 / F.B. Fiske, Fort Yates, N. Dak. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "What_could_it_be" by archgimp Commentary: "I took this one lunchtime wandering around the backstreets - but something else much more interesting happened in the afternoon and I completely forgot what this was - or where I took it. I think the texture could be useful for something though - so here" |
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St. Jerome | Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. |
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John Locke | 1690 | This measure did confine every man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth, than to be straitened for want of room to plant in. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And she looked at him with a wandering eye. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | People are wandering in, bewildered, needing a car. |
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Health | The disease can also lead to wandering, pacing, and screaming. (references) | |
Wandering and pacing are also common among Alzheimer's patients. (references) | ||
Don’t try to stop the person from wandering unless he or she is in danger. (references) | ||
Children | Niger | In August the mayor of Niamey reportedly established a program to locate, register, and put in psychiatric care persons with mental disabilities wandering the streets. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence. Miss Sallie Ann Splurge, of her own accord, Wedded a wandering English lord -- Wedded and took him to dwell with her "paw," A parent who throve by the practice of Draw. Lord Cadde I don't hesitate to declare Unworthy the father-in-legal care Of that elderly sport, notwithstanding the truth That Cadde had renounced all the follies of youth; For, sad to relate, he'd arrived at the stage Of existence that's marked by the vices of age. Among them, cupidity caused him to urge Repeated demands on the pocket of Splurge, Till, wrecked in his fortune, that gentleman saw Inadequate aid in the practice of Draw, And took, as a means of augmenting his pelf, To the business of being a lord himself. His neat-fitting garments he wilfully shed And sacked himself strangely in checks instead; Denuded his chin, but retained at each ear A whisker that looked like a blasted career. He painted his neck an incarnadine hue Each morning and varnished it all that he knew. The moony monocular set in his eye Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye. His head was enroofed with a billycock hat, And his low-necked shoes were aduncous and flat. In speech he eschewed his American ways, Denying his nose to the use of his A's And dulling their edge till the delicate sense Of a babe at their temper could take no offence. His H's -- 'twas most inexpressibly sweet, The patter they made as they fell at his feet! Re-outfitted thus, Mr. Splurge without fear Began as Lord Splurge his recouping career. Alas, the Divinity shaping his end Entertained other views and decided to send His lordship in horror, despair and dismay From the land of the nobleman's natural prey. For, smit with his Old World ways, Lady Cadde Fell -- suffering Caesar! -- in love with her dad! G.J. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | By this means they have not only been kept in a wandering state, but been led to look upon us as unjust and indifferent to their fate. |
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| "Wandering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.27% of the time. "Wandering" is used about 721 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 91.27% | 658 | 9,954 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.09% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.39% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.11% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 721 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wandering". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Uzal | N/A | Biblical | Wandering |
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Expressions using "wandering": have wandering hands ♦ The Wandering Jew ♦ wandering about ♦ wandering albatross ♦ wandering away ♦ wandering bullet ♦ wandering cell ♦ wandering Jew ♦ wandering kidney ♦ wandering life ♦ wandering liver ♦ wandering minstrel ♦ wandering mouse ♦ wandering nerve ♦ wandering path ♦ wandering spider. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "wandering": wandering-eyed, wandering-hero. | |
Ending with "wandering": mind-wandering. | |
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| Language | Translations for "wandering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përçart (raving), i përhumbur (abstracted, haunted, lost), gjarpërues (devious, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, twisting, winding), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), bredhje (divagation, gad, ramble, roam, rove, saunter, vagrancy). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتلو, متمعتج, متجول (busk, gadabout, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, tinker, traveling, travelling), تطوف, تجول (gallivant, get about, knock about, move, peddle, ramble, stroll, swag, tour, wander), تائه (devious, errant, stray, vagrant), ترحل (nomad, roam, travel), طواف (circling, patrol boat, roam, rove), ضلال (aberrance, deception, delusion, error, obscurity, perversity, wrong), ضال (aberrant, astray, errata, erratic, lost, rogue, stray), شرود (absence, divagation, excursion, roaming). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | странствуващ (ambulatory, errant, itinerant, peripatetic, planetary, runabout, strolling, traveling, travelling, vagrant), скитане (roam, rove, vagabondage, wanderings), разсеян (absent, absent minded, diffuse, disseminated, distrait, forgetful, moony, oblivious, preoccupied, rare, scatter-brained, stray, unmindful, vacant, wool gathering), лъкатушен (cranky, flexous, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, winding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 漫步 (Ambled, Ambling, stroll, Strolled, Strolling, Wander, Wandered). (various references) | |
Czech | toulavý, tìkavý (desultory, flighty, rambling, runabout, volatile, wool gathering, woolgathering), putování (peregrination, pilgrimage, wayfaring), potulný (itinerant, rambling, strolling, vagabond, vagrant), koèovný (itinerant, migrant, nomad, nomadic), bludný (errant, excursive, vagrant). (various references) | |
Danish | jævn afdrift, afdrift (crab, drift, leeway, take-off, windage). (various references) | |
Dutch | wandelende galblaas (wandering gall bladder), reuzenalbatros (wandering albatross), gestreepte tradescantia (Wandering-Jew), afdwaling (aberrance, aberration, digression, straying, wandering from the point). (various references) | |
Esperanto | detemiĝo (digression, straying, wandering from the point). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaeltava (itinerant, migratory), vaellus (migration, rambling, stroll), ryömiminen, kuljeskeleva, hourailu (delirium). (various references) | |
French | vagabondages, vagabondage, vagabond (wanderer), parcourant, nomade, errant (wanderer), errance, divagation, distrait, dérive. (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfdwaling (aberrance, aberration, digression, straying, wandering from the point). (various references) | |
German | wandernd (ambulant, erratic, flitting, floating, hiking, itinerant, migrant, migrating, migratorily, migratory, roaming, vagrant). (various references) | |
Greek | περιπλάνιση, περιπλάνηση (peregrination, ramble, rove, saunter, vagrancy), άρρυθμη παρέκκλιση πορείας, ταξίδια (traveling, travelling). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תועה (errant, stray, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), שטוט (rambling), הטלטלות (peregrination, portability), טלטלה (hurling, jerk, throwing), טלטול (carrying, fling, rolling, shake, yank), נדידה (migration, nomadism, peregrination, roaming, roving, vagabondage), נדודים (nomadism), נדוד (infirm, migration, unstable, unsteady, vagabondage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vándorló (ambulatory, errant, floater, itinerant, migrant, migratory, rambler, roving, vagabond), vándorlás (hike, migration, peregrination, roving, run, trek). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengembaraan (adventure, roaming, roving, vagabondage, vagabondism, vagrancy), pengelanaan (roaming, roving). (various references) | |
Italian | vagabondo (gadabout, hobo, Idler, loafer, rambler, rolling stone, rover, scouring, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), vagabondaggio (roaming, tramp, vagabond, vagabondage, vagrancy, yegg), tortuoso (circuitous, devious, roundabout, tortuous, winding), peregrinazione (odyssey, peregrination), nomade (nomad, nomadic, roving), itinerante (itinerant, roving, traveling, travelling), errante (errant, erring, rambling), derivante, delirante (delirious, raving). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浮遊 (floating, suspension), 放浪 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうよう (admiration, business purpose, calm, composure, exalting, extolling, for business, on business, praise, ramble, saunter, stroll, trifling matter, urination, urine, walk), ひょうろう (food, provisions), ひょうはく (blanching, bleaching, confession, drifting about, expression, roaming), さすらい (wandering alone in a strange country), ふゆう (floating, May fly, opulence, rich and famous, riches, something ephemeral, suspension, wafting, wealth), ばっしょう, ほうこう (apprenticeship, aroma, balm, course, direction, emission of light, expulsion from school, fluctuation, fragrance, howl, muzzle, perfume, public duty, rambling, roaming, roar, seamstress, service, tailor, variation, way, yell), ほうろう (enamel), りゅうぼう, りゅうり (wandering alone in a strange country), あしまかせ (walking wherever one's legs lead one), ろうろう (clear, full-sounding, sonorous, unemployed), るろう (nomadism, vagrancy), とりとめのない (incoherent, rambling, vague, whimsical), えんえん (blazing, gasping, meandering). (various references) | |
Korean | 방황. (various references) | |
Manx | wandreilys, wandreilagh (wanderer), shaghrynagh (abberant, absent, bewildering, devious, disjointed, drifter, errant, misleading, stray, strayer, truant), shaghranys (vagrancy), shaghraneys, rouailtagh (itinerant, nomad, nomadic, ranger, roamer, roaming, rover, roving, stroller, wanderer), rouail (prowl, ramble, rove, roving, straying, wander). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anderingway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vida nômade, vagabundo (bum, cornerman, down-and-out, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, lazybones, maverick, planetary, prowler, rambling, ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wastrel, woodward), vagabundagem (rove, vagabondism, vagrancy), peregrinação (peregrination, pilgrimage), passeio (causeway, causey, crosswalk, footpath, footway, jaunt, mall, out, outing, pavement, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, roam, run, saunter, scramble, sidewalk, stroll, tour, trip, tripping, walk, walkway), nômade (migrant, nomad, nomadic), movediço (slippery, slippy), móvel (cause, fitment, flexile, flying, mobile, movable, moving, piece of furniture, portable, rolling, shifting, traveling, travelling), errante (arrant, devious, errant, erring, excursive, gadabout, knockabout, migratory, nomad, planetary, rambling, strolling, viatic), distraído (absent-minded, abstracted, careless, distracted, distrait, distraught, inobservant, light-headed, negligent, unheeding, unthinking), devaneio (abstractedness, day-dream, dream, dreaminess, muse, reverie, wool-gathering), ambulante (ambulant, ambulatory, itinerant, moving, peripatetic, strolling, traveling, travelling, walking). (various references) | |
Romanian | umblãtor (walking), rãtãcitor (errant, ranging, runabout, vagrant, wanderer), rãtãcit (afield, haggard, stray, wild), rãtãcire (aberration, error, mistake, roving), pribegie (exile), pribeag (fugitive, solitary, vagrant, wanderer), hoinar (dilly dally, gadabout, rambler, rambling, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), drumeţie (camping, excursion, trip-making), colindat, aiurare (delirium). (various references) | |
Russian | странствующий (ambulatory, errant, peripatetic, wayfaring), мигрирующий (anadromous, migratory), бродячий (down-and-out, knock about, nomad, nomadic, rambling, rangy, strolling), бродить странствие блуждающий, блуждающий (errant, extravagant, migratory). (various references) | |
Scottish | seachran (going astray : air seachran), seabhaid (an error, error, going astray), iomrall (an error, straying), faondradh, allaban (roving, wandering : air allaban). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lutajući (errant, peregrin, stray, strolling). (various references) | |
Spanish | errante (errant, itinerant, knockabout, stray). (various references) | |
Swedish | vandring (migration, passage, perambulation, peregrination, walk, wander), vandrande (migratory, planetary, walking), kringvandrande (errant, itinerant, peripatetic, vagrant), kringflackande (erratic, roving, unsettled, vagabond, vagrancy, vagrant). (various references) | |
Turkish | serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, yob), sayıklayan (delirious, light-headed), sayıklama (delirium, talking in one's sleep, wander), sürüngen (creeper, reptant, reptile, reptilian), gezinme (ramble, roam, saunter, strolling, tramp, walkabout), gezginlik (itineracy, itinerancy), göçebe (immigrant, migratory, nomad, roving, vagrant, wanderer), dalgınlık (absence, absence of mind, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, Kef, pensiveness, reverie, thoughtfulness, vacancy, vacuity, woolgathering), dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, meditative, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wistful, woolgathering), daldan dala konma (jump from one subject to onother, peregrination), başıboş dolaşan (nomadic), avare (dawdler, dosser, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, idled, rover, straggler, straggling, straggly, strayed, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, yob), amaçsızca dolaşma, amaçsızca dolaşan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кочовий (migrant, migratory, nomad, nomadic), мандрівний (arrant, errant, itinerant, itinerary, migrant, migratory, nomad, nomadic, peripatetic), звивистий (anfractuose, anfractuous, convoluted, cranky, meandering, quirky, sinuate, snaky, twisted, winding), безцільне блукання, блукаючий (errant, erring, erroneous, planetary, rangy), повзучий (creeping, creepy, procumbent, repent). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | uốn khúc không định cư, sự chệch hướng sự nghĩ lan man, nay đây mai đó vẩn vơ, lang thang quanh co, lan man; lơ đễnh lạc lõng, không mạch lạc mê sảng; nói mê. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwibiog (flitting), gwib (jaunt), crwydrol, crwydr, ar ddisberod (astray). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conmigrationem, errabundus, erratus, erroneus, error, errore, errorem, errores, erroresque, erroribus, erroris, vaga, vagi, vagos, vagosque, vagus, vulgivagus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | vagabundus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ti umin dokei ean genhtai tini anqrwpw ekaton probata kai planhqh en ex autwn ouci afeiV ta ennenhkontaennea epi ta orh poreuqeiV zhtei to planwmenon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quid vobis videtur si fuerint alicui centum oves et erraverit una ex eis nonne relinquet nonaginta novem in montibus et vadit quaerere eam quae erravit |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | An ofþam. hu ne for-let he anan þa nigon & hund-nigentigon þam munte. & gæð & secð þætan þe for-wurð. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | What semeth to you? If ther weren to sum man an hundrid scheep, and oon of hem hath errid, whethir he schal not leeue nynti and nyne in desert, and schal go to seche that that erride? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | How thinke ye? Yf a man have an hondred shepe and one of them be gone astray dothe he not leve nynty and nyne in ye moutains and go and seke that one which is gone astray? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | How think ye? if a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go to the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one? |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Unsa may inyong paghunahuna? Kon ang usa ka tawo may usa ka gatus ka mga karnero, ug ang usa niini mahisalaag, dili ba niya biyaan ang kasiyaman ug siyam diha sa kabungturan, ug molakaw siya sa pagpangita niadtong usa nga nahi-salaag? |
| Croatian | "Što vam se èini? Ako neki èovjek imadne sto ovaca i jedna od njih zaluta, neæe li on ostaviti onih devedeset i devet u gorama i poæi u potragu za zalutalom? |
| Danish | Hvad tykkes eder? Om et Menneske har hundrede Får, og eet af dem farer vild, forlader han da ikke de ni og halvfemsindstyve og går ud i Bjergene og leder efter det vildfarne? |
| Dutch | Wat dunkt u, indien enig mens honderd schapen had, en een uit dezelve afgedwaald ware, zal hij niet de negen en negentig laten, en op de bergen heengaande, het afgedwaalde zoeken? |
| Finnish | Ja jos hän sen löytää, totisesti minä sanon teille: hän iloitsee enemmän siitä kuin niistä yhdeksästäkymmenestä yhdeksästä, jotka eivät olleet eksyneet. |
| French | Que vous en semble? Si un homme a cent brebis, et que l`une d`elles s`égare, ne laisse-t-il pas les quatre-vingt-dix-neuf autres sur les montagnes, pour aller chercher celle qui s`est égarée? |
| German | Was dünkt euch? Wenn irgend ein Mensch hundert Schafe hätte und eins unter ihnen sich verirrte: läßt er nicht die neunundneunzig auf den Bergen, geht hin und sucht das verirrte? |
| Hungarian | Mit gondoltok? Ha valamely embernek száz juha van, és egy azok közül eltévelyedik: vajjon a kilenczvenkilenczet nem hagyja-é ott, és a hegyekre menvén, nem keresi-é azt, a melyik eltévelyedett? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bagaimanakah pendapatmu? Seandainya ada seorang yang mempunyai seratus ekor domba, lalu seekor dari domba-domba itu hilang, apakah yang akan dibuat oleh orang itu? Pasti ia akan meninggalkan domba yang sembilan puluh sembilan ekor itu di bukit dan pergi mencari yang hilang itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bagaimanakah sangkamu? Jikalau pada seorang ada domba seratus ekor, lalu sesat seekor daripadanya itu, bukankah yang sembilan puluh sembilan ekor itu ditinggalkannya di atas gunung, lalu pergi sambil mencari seekor yang sesat itu? |
| Italian | Che ve ne pare? Se un uomo ha cento pecore e ne smarrisce una, non lascerà forse le novantanove sui monti, per andare in cerca di quella perduta? |
| Manx Gaelic | Cre ta shiu smooinaghtyn? My ta keead keyrrey ec dooinney, as unnane jeu v'er n'gholl er-shaghryn, nagh vel eh faagail yn chiare-feed as yn nuy-jeig, as goll gys ny sleityn, as shirrey yn cheyrrey chailjey? |
| Maori | Pehea to koutou whakaaro? ki te mea he rau nga hipi a tetahi tangata, a ka kotiti ke tetahi, e kore ianei e waiho e ia nga iwa tekau ma iwa, ka haere i runga i nga maunga, rapu ai i te mea i kotiti ke? |
| Norwegian | Hvad tykkes eder? om et menneske har hundre får, og ett av dem forviller sig, forlater han da ikke de ni og nitti i fjellet og går bort og leter efter det som har forvillet sig? |
| Portuguese | Que vos parece? Se alguém tiver cem ovelhas, e uma delas se extraviar, não deixará as noventa e nove nos montes para ir buscar a que se extraviou? |
| Rumanian | Ce credeyi? Dacq un om are o sutq de oi, wi se rqtqcewte una din ele, nu lasq el pe cele nouqzeci wi nouq pe munyi, wi se duce sq caute pe cea rqtqcitq? |
| Russian | лБЛ ЧБН ЛБЦЕФУС? еУМЙ ВЩ Х ЛПЗП ВЩМП УФП ПЧЕГ, Й ПДОБ ЙЪ ОЙИ ЪБВМХДЙМБУШ, ФП ОЕ ПУФБЧЙФ МЙ ПО ДЕЧСОПУФП ДЕЧСФШ Ч ЗПТБИ Й ОЕ РПКДЕФ МЙ ЙУЛБФШ ЪБВМХДЙЧЫХАУС? |
| Spanish | ¿Qué os parece? Si algún hombre tiene cien ovejas y se extravía una, ¿acaso no dejará las noventa y nueve en las montañas e irá a buscar la descarriada? |
| Swahili | Mnaonaje? Mtu akiwa na kondoo mia, akimpoteza mmoja, hufanyaje? Huwaacha wale tisini na tisa mlimani, na huenda kumtafuta yule aliyepotea. |
| Swedish | Vad synes eder? Om en man har hundra får, och ett av dem har kommit vilse, lämnar han icke då de nittionio på bergen och går åstad och söker efter det som har kommit vilse? |
| Uma | "Beiwa pomporata-ni? Ria hadua tauna to ria bima-na ha'atu ma'a-na. Ane moronto hama'a, napa to nababehi? Tantu napalahii bima-na to sio mpulu' sio hi panapa bulu', pai' -i hilou mpopali' to hama'a to moronto toei. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wandering": wanderings. (additional references) | |
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"Wandering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anderegg, mandering, sawdering, wanderint, wandern, wandring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wandering" (pronounced wÄ"ndering) |
| 7 | w Ä" n d er i ng | squandering. |
| 6 | -Ä" n d er i ng | pondering. |
| 5 | -n d er i ng | blundering, floundering, foundering, gerrymandering, hindering, laundering, maundering, meandering, pandering, philandering, plundering, rendering, surrendering, tendering, thundering, wondering. |
| 4 | -d er i ng | bewildering, bordering, considering, doddering, embroidering, murdering, ordering, powdering, reconsidering, reordering, shouldering, shuddering, smoldering, soldering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bickering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, outnumbering, pampering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, posturing, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, reoffering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, showering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: awninged. | |
-2 letters: aginner, darning, dawning, deaning, deraign, drawing, earning, engrain, gradine, grained, grannie, grinned, indrawn, nardine, nearing, reading, redwing, rending, warding, warning, weaning, wearing, wending, windage, wringed. | |
-3 letters: aweing, awning, danger, daring, dawing, denari, dewing, dinger, dinner, earing, earwig, ending, endrin, engird, enwind, gained, gainer, gander, garden, ginned, ginner, girned, gnawed, gnawer, gradin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: wanderings. | |
+2 letters: handwringer, unrewarding. | |
+3 letters: breadwinning, handwringers. | |
+4 letters: breadwinnings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Bible Trace | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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