meander

Speech parts

1. meander - Noun

2. meander - Verb

Meaning

A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.

A tortuous or intricate movement.

Fretwork. See Fret.

To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.

To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ramble wind thread wander weave swan potter gad rove paseo bend maunder oxbow range run
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Antonyms

chase bolt boogie run career continue
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Hypernyms

move amble travel curve promenade stroll

Hyponyms

oxbow snake

Phrases with the word

Seleucia on the Meander meander-shaped Antioch on the Meander

Derivatives

meandered meandering

Anagrams

amender enarmed Deerman Merenda Ramdeen reamend reedman renamed

Examples

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. Michael Ondaatje

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. David Almond

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity." Plutarch

Even straight roads meander. Brandon Boyd

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. Steven Bochco

Close letter words and terms

mean-spiritedly mean-spiritedness meanable meander-shaped meanderer meandering