Wand

Quick meaning: Wand is a noun meaning A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.

Meaning

A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand.
2. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
3. A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
4. (UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
5. (transitive) To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a handheld metal detector.
6. (transitive) To use a handheld vibrator (the sex toy) on (a person or body part).

Example Sentences

curling wand

The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.

Shop vac serves as blower to force vermiculite in fiber drum up through vacuum-cleaner wand and hose into wall opening

Shortly afterwards, Thomas lined up a corner and with his wand of a right foot, landed it on the head of Campbell to get Everton's second.

Word Forms

• wands
• wanding
• wanded

Synonyms for wand

Depending on context, synonyms include staff, rod, stick, twig, verge, sceptre.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sceptre, verge, scepter, rod, baton, leverage.

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