name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wand
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /wɒnd/
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General-American: /wɑnd/
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Australian, Scotland: /wɔnd/
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rhymes with -ɒnd
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CMU ARPABET: W AA1 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: staff, rod, stick, twig
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: staff, rod, stick, twig
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An instrument shaped like a wand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Examples
- curling wand
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noun
Meaning 5
A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, figuratively, informal
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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verb
Meaning 8
To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a handheld metal detector.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To use a handheld vibrator (the sex toy) on (a person or body part).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 10
a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: baton
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rod
noun
Meaning 11
a rod used by a magician or water diviner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rod
noun
Meaning 12
a ceremonial or emblematic staff
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, verge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: staff
Narrower terms: bauble
noun
Meaning 13
a thin supple twig or rod
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- stems bearing slender wands of flowers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: branchlet, twig, sprig
History
Etymology
Various origins: * A nickname for a shy or short-sighted person, from Old English wand (“mole”). * Borrowed from German Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver or cloth cutter, from Middle High German gewant (“cloth, garment”) (representing modern Gewand (“garment”)). * Borrowed from Dutch Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a glove maker, from Middle Dutch want (“glove”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wendh- Proto-Germanic *wanduz Old Norse vǫndrbor. Middle English wand English wand From Middle English wand, wond, from Old Norse vǫndr (“switch, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendh- (“to turn, twist, wind, braid”). Cognate with Icelandic vendi (“wand”), Danish vånd (“wand, switch”), German Wand (“wall, septum”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (wandus, “rod”).
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գավազան (gavazan) — hand-held narrow rod
- Bulgarian: палка (palka) — hand-held narrow rod
- Bulgarian: жезъл (žezǎl) — hand-held narrow rod
- Catalan: vara — hand-held narrow rod
- Chinese Mandarin: 魔杖 (mózhàng) — hand-held narrow rod
- Chinese Mandarin: 魔法棒 (mófǎbàng) — hand-held narrow rod
- Dutch: staf — hand-held narrow rod
- Dutch: roede — hand-held narrow rod
- Esperanto: bastono — hand-held narrow rod
- Esperanto: vergo — hand-held narrow rod
- Finnish: sauva — hand-held narrow rod
- French: baguette — hand-held narrow rod
- Galician: garabullo — hand-held narrow rod
- Galician: garavizo — hand-held narrow rod
- Galician: guizo — hand-held narrow rod
- Galician: bregasca — hand-held narrow rod
- German: Stab — hand-held narrow rod
- Ancient Greek: ῥάβδος (rhábdos) — hand-held narrow rod
- Hebrew: מַטֶּה (maté) — hand-held narrow rod
- Hebrew: שַׁרְבִיט (sharvít) — hand-held narrow rod
- Italian: bacchetta — hand-held narrow rod
- Japanese: つえ (tsue) — hand-held narrow rod
- Latin: virga — hand-held narrow rod
- Macedonian: стапче (stapče) — hand-held narrow rod
- Māori: tari — hand-held narrow rod
- Māori: pihi — hand-held narrow rod
- Māori: matire — hand-held narrow rod
- Norwegian: stav — hand-held narrow rod
- Norwegian: vånd — hand-held narrow rod
- Polish: różdżka — hand-held narrow rod
- Polish: pałeczka — hand-held narrow rod
- Portuguese: varinha — hand-held narrow rod
- Russian: па́лочка (páločka) — hand-held narrow rod
- Russian: жезл (žezl) — hand-held narrow rod
- Spanish: varita — hand-held narrow rod
- Ottoman Turkish: دكنك (değenek) — hand-held narrow rod
- Ottoman Turkish: عصا (ʼasa) — hand-held narrow rod
- Woiwurrung: jerrer — hand-held narrow rod