bewander
English
Etymology
From be- (“around, about”) + wanderCategory:English terms prefixed with be-#WANDER. Compare Saterland Frisian bewonderje, Middle Dutch bewanderen, German bewandern.
Verb
bewander (third-person singular simple present bewanders, present participle bewandering, simple past and past participle bewandered)Category:English lemmas#BEWANDERCategory:English verbs#BEWANDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEWANDERCategory:Pages with entries#BEWANDERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BEWANDER
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BEWANDER) To wander around or about; roam.
- 1839, The New Sporting Magazine:
- Or 'twas wont to be so, / Just a few years ago, / At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, / That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack […]Category:English terms with quotations#BEWANDER
- 1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire:
- The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]Category:English terms with quotations#BEWANDER
- 1996, Richard F. Burton (Translator), The Arabian Nights:
- […] and anon the case became grievous to her and she set out to bewander the regions saying, "Haply shall Allah reunite me with my children and my husband!"Category:English terms with quotations#BEWANDER