nnoun.acttravelling about without any clear destinationSynset:vagabondage wandering
Examples:- she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him
Derivationally Related Form:wanderrovevagabond
Hypernyms:travel traveling travelling
Inherited Hypernyms:wanderingtravelmotionchangeactionacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:drifting
vverb.motionmove about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employmentSynset:cast drift ramble range roam roll rove stray swan tramp vagabond wander
Examples:- The gypsies roamed the woods
- roving vagabonds
- the wandering Jew
- The cattle roam across the prairie
- the laborers drift from one town to the next
- They rolled from town to town
Derivationally Related Form:wanderervagabondstrayervagabondageroamerramblerrovingstrayrambledriftertrampdriftingwandering
Hypernyms:go locomote move travel
Inherited Hypernyms:rolltravel
Direct Hyponyms:gadgallivantjazz aroundmaunder
Full Troponyms:gallivantmaunder
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s | Something is ---ing PP | Somebody ---s PP | They --- the countryside (apply to: ramble, wander, rove, roam) | They --- in the countryside (apply to: ramble, wander, rove, roam)
adj satadj.allmigratorySynset:mobile nomadic peregrine wandering
Examples:- a restless mobile society
- the nomadic habits of the Bedouins
- believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future
- wandering tribes
Antonyms:settled
Derivationally Related Form:peregrinemobility
Inherited Hypernyms:mobile
Similar to:unsettled