Usually means: Winding, curving path or river.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. meander: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. meander: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meander: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meander: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meander: Vocabulary.com
  6. Meander, meander: Wordnik
  7. meander: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. meander: Wiktionary
  9. meander: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. meander: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meander: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. meander: Dictionary.com
  13. meander: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. meander: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Meander (art), Meander (disambiguation), Meander (mathematics), Meander (mythology), Meander: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Meander: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. meander: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. meander: Rhymezone
  19. meander: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. meander: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. meander: Free Dictionary
  22. meander: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Meander: The Word Detective
  24. meander: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Meander: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. meander: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. meander: Global Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Meander (geography), meander: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Meander (geography), meander: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meander: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meander: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. meander: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Meander: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

(Note: See meandered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (often plural) One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
noun:  (geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
noun:  A tortuous or winding journey.
noun:  Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
noun:  (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
noun:  (possibly obsolete) A path on which the directions, distances, and elevations are noted, as a part of a land survey.
noun:  (architecture) A decorative border consisting of a repeated linear motif, particularly of intersecting perpendicular lines.
verb:  (intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage
verb:  (intransitive) To be intricate.
verb:  (transitive) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
noun:  A town in Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
noun:  A river in northern Tasmania, which joins the South Esk.

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