Wander vs Haunt - What's the difference?
wander | haunt |
(lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
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*(Bible), (w) xi.37:
*:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
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*:“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.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
(lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
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*(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
*:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
(lb) To commit adultery.
(lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
(lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
* Fairfax
To make uneasy, restless.
To stalk, to follow
To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XI:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
* Wyclif
To practise; to devote oneself to.
* Ascham
To persist in staying or visiting.
* Shakespeare
A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
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* 1868 , , "Kitty's Class Day":
* 1984 , Timothy Loughran and Natalie Angier, "
(dialect) A ghost.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 93:
A feeding place for animals.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
In intransitive terms the difference between wander and haunt
is that wander is of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention while haunt is to persist in staying or visiting.wander
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Verb
(en verb)Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Synonyms
* (move without purpose) err, roam * (commit adultery) cheat * (go somewhere indirectly) * (lose focus) driftDerived terms
* wander off * wanderer * wanderlustAnagrams
* * * ----haunt
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Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(en verb)- A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
- You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
- those cares that haunt the court and town
- Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
- The memory of his past failures haunted him.
- The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
- Jesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the iewes: butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym, and there haunted with his disciples.
- yonder in that wastefull wildernesse / Huge monsters haunt , and many dangers dwell
- Haunt thyself to pity.
- Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
- I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Noun
(en noun)- Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts , and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.
Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming," Time , 8 Oct.:
- Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
- ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’
