different between wander vs promenade

English

Etymology

From Middle English wandren, wandrien, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-Germanic *wandr?n? (“to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *wend?- (“to turn, wind”), equivalent to wend +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• (West Midlands, especially Birmingham) IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: wan?der

Verb

wander (third-person singular simple present wanders, present participle wandering, simple past and past participle wandered)

1. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

   • They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

   Synonyms: err, roam

2. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
   • Bible, Psalms cxix.10:

     O, let me not wander from thy commandments.

3. (intransitive) To commit adultery.

   Synonym: cheat

4. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
5. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

   Synonym: drift

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

wander (countable and uncountable, plural wanders)

1. (countable) The act or instance of wandering.

2. (uncountable) The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.

   Hyponym: polar wander

   baseline wander in ECG signals

Translations

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Warden, drawne, warden, warned

German

Pronunciation

Verb

wander

1. inflection of wandern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??m?n??d/, /p??m??n??d/, (rare) /?p??m?ne?d/, /p??m??ne?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??m??ne?d/, /p??m??n?d/
• Rhymes: -??d, -e?d

Noun

promenade (plural promenades)

1. (formal) A prom (dance).
2. A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

3. A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 235:

     The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
4. A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.

Synonyms

• (a place to walk): esplanade

Translations

Verb

promenade (third-person singular simple present promenades, present participle promenading, simple past and past participle promenaded)

1. To walk for amusement, show, or exercise.
2. To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.

Derived terms

• promenader (agent noun)

Translations

Anagrams

• open-armed

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French promenade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pro?.m??na?.d?/
• Hyphenation: pro?me?na?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

promenade f (plural promenades or promenaden)

1. promenade

French

Etymology

promener +? -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??m.nad/
• Rhymes: -ad
• Homophone: promenades

Noun

promenade f (plural promenades)

1. walk; stroll (walk for enjoyment)

Derived terms

• promenade de santé

Descendants

Further reading

• “promenade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).