meander

• mæander (archaic)

From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek Μαίανδρος (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course. (Turkish Büyük Menderes Nehri).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /miˈændə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /miˈændɚ/

meander (plural meanders)

1. One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.

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

2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
3. (geography) one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
   • 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, "Creation: A Philosophical Poem":

     See, how the streams advancing to the main, / Through crooked channels draw their crystal train! / While lingering thus they in meanders glide, / They scatter verdant life on either side.

4. Fretwork.
5. Perplexity.
6. Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border.
7. (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.

meander (third-person singular simple present meanders, present participle meandering, simple past and past participle meandered)

1. (intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.

   The stream meandered through the valley.

   • 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 51:

     I'd forgotten how scenic parts of the line are - the railway crosses a host of streams while meandering through meadows or skirting woodland.

2. (transitive) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, OCLC 1049089293:

     Her labyrinth-like ţurns, and mad meander'd trace […]

• The Chambers Dictionary (1998)

• meander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Büyük Menderes River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Merenda, amender, enarmed, reamend, reedman, renamed

From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek Μαίανδρος (Maíandros).

meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandere or meandre or meandrer, definite plural meanderne or meandrene)

1. a meander (in a river)

• meandersjø
• meandrere

• “meander” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “meander” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek Μαίανδρος (Maíandros).

meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandrar, definite plural meandrane)

1. a meander (in a river)

• meandersjø

• “meander” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from German Mäander, from Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek Μαίανδρος (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course.

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈan.dɛr/

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• Rhymes: -andɛr
• Syllabification: me‧an‧der

meander m inan

1. meander (one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse)

   Synonym: zakole

2. meander, meandros (decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif)

• meander in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• meander in Polish dictionaries at PWN