Meander

Quick meaning: Meander is a noun meaning (often plural) One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.

Meaning

(often plural) One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.

More Meanings

1. A tortuous or winding journey.
2. Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
3. (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
4. (possibly obsolete) A path on which the directions, distances, and elevations are noted, as a part of a land survey.
5. (architecture) A decorative border consisting of a repeated linear motif, particularly of intersecting perpendicular lines.
6. (intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage
7. (geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse

Example Sentences

The stream meandered through the valley.

the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body

And as to the lands that were within the national meander boundaries, that description was based upon a state survey?

The scales are conceived of as meander fretwork; but I do not know whether, for this reason, this fish is associated with thunder.

Word Forms

• meanders
• meandering
• meandered

Synonyms for meander

Depending on context, synonyms include wind, worm, wander, thread, weave.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thread, weave, wind, stroll, twist, zigzag.

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