meander

meander is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
2. noun. A tortuous or intricate movement.
3. noun. Fretwork. See Fret.
4. transitive verb. To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
5. intransitive verb. To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
6. noun. an aimless amble on a winding course

   Synonyms: ramble

7. noun. a bend or curve, as in a stream or river
8. verb. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

   "the river winds through the hills"

   "the path meanders through the vineyards"

   Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind

Synonyms

ramble, thread, wander, weave, wind

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in meander:

amender, reamend, reedman, renamed

Common word forms

meanders, meandered, meanderer, meandering

Words from these letters

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