0 present participle of wander
1 to walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction:
We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.
She was found several hours later, wandering the streets, lost.
If his hands start to wander, tell him firmly, "No, I'm not ready for this."
He was cruelly described as a creepy old man with wandering hands.
She wrote an article about infidelity called "Wives who wander".
2 to start talking about a different subject from the one you were originally discussing:
Don't worry if you lose hold of the reins - the horse won't wander off.
We wandered along the shore, stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night.
We wandered through the beautifully proportioned rooms of the Winter Palace.
The descriptor ' hermit ' here encompasses wandering solitaries, enclosed anchorites, hermit-monks and monk-hermits.
Every forward wandering set is n= also (backward) wandering, but the converse is not true.
