meander

1. 1.

   to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

   “the river winds through the hills”

   “the path meanders through the vineyards”

   “sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body”

   Synonymsweavewindthreadwander

   Broadertravel

   Narrowersnake

Other forms of meander

plural

meanders·

past tense

meanderred·

present participle

meanderring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meander

What does meander mean?

meander means "a bend or curve, as in a stream or river". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meander?

meander has 3 syllables: me-an-der. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /miˈændɚ/.

What is another word for meander?

Close synonyms include ramble, weave, wind, thread, wander. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meander a common word?

meander is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with meander?

3 words rhyme with meander. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.