{
    "term": "wander",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "wander",
            "heSheIt": "wanders"
        },
        "pastSimple": "wandered",
        "pastParticiple": "wandered",
        "ingForm": "wandering"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to walk slowly around or to a place, often without any particular sense of purpose or direction",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.wander something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She wandered aimlessly around the streets.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We wandered back towards the car."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The child was found wandering the streets alone.",
                    "contextForm": "wander something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't go wandering all over the house!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He just wandered in one day and asked for a job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wandered into a bar and ordered a drink."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One day she wandered further afield."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Simply wandering is a pleasure in itself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cattle are allowed to wander freely."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They found him wandering around aimlessly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Visitors are free to wander through the gardens and woods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cattle and sheep wander freely on the hilltops."
                },
                {
                    "text": "During the day I would wander the streets, asking passers-by for a few cents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was found wandering in the road late one night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had spent her life wandering from place to place."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They spent a couple of hours wandering through the markets."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Hobbies"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["slowly", "aimlessly", "disconsolately"],
                "verb + wander": [
                    "be free to",
                    "allow somebody/​something to",
                    "let somebody/​something"
                ],
                "preposition": ["across", "all over", "along"],
                "phrases": ["find somebody wandering"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to move away from the place where you ought to be or the people you are with",
            "sensetop": "wander away/offwander from/off something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The child wandered off and got lost.",
                    "contextForm": "wander away/off"
                },
                {
                    "text": "How could you let him wander off like that?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had wandered from the path into the woods.",
                    "contextForm": "wander from/off something"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "stray",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["slowly", "aimlessly", "disconsolately"],
                "verb + wander": [
                    "be free to",
                    "allow somebody/​something to",
                    "let somebody/​something"
                ],
                "preposition": ["across", "all over", "along"],
                "phrases": ["find somebody wandering"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to stop being directed on something and to move without much control to other ideas, subjects, etc.",
            "sensetop": "wander away, back, to, etc. something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's easy to be distracted and **let your attention wander**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Try not to **let your mind wander**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her thoughts wandered back to her youth.",
                    "contextForm": "wander away, back, to, etc. something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don’t wander off the subject—keep to the point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lisa let her mind wander a little."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His attention was beginning to wander."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My thoughts wandered from the exam questions to my interview the next day."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "drift",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["a little"],
                "verb + wander": ["begin to", "allow something to", "let something"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to move slowly from looking at one thing to looking at another thing or in other directions",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She **let her gaze wander**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His eyes wandered towards the photographs on the wall.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to go in a curve instead of following a straight course",
            "sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The road wanders along through the hills."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒndə(r)/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wander__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒndəz/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wanders__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒndəd/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wandered__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɒndərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wandering__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːndər/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wander__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːndərz/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wanders__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːndərd/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wandered__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɑːndərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "wa/wander/wandering__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English wandrian, of West Germanic origin; related to wend and wind2."
}