meander
meander is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A tortuous or intricate movement.
- 2.(Arch.) Fretwork. See Fret.
- 3.To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous. Dryton.
- 4.To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- ambages
- anagram
- arcanum
- backhanded
- beat
- book
- bush
- charade
- cherry
- circuit
- circuition
- circuitous
- circumbendibus
- concealed
- confidential
- conundrum
- course
- crack
- crux
- dance
- dead
- detour
- deviate
- deviation
- difficulty
- digression
- enigma
- from
- house
- ignorance
- incognita
- indirect
- intricacy
- involved
- labyrinth
- labyrinthian
- labyrinthine
- latency
- lead
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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