wand
/wɑnd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
noun
A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
noun
An instrument shaped like a wand.
noun
A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
noun
A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
Example Sentences
- "Then all of a sudden a number of armed men arranged in companies, and marshalled by officers who held ivory wands in their hands, came running swiftly towards us, having, so far as I could make out, emerged from the face of the precipice like ants from their burrows."
- "Love is that blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart."
- "curling wand"
- "Shop vac serves as blower to force vermiculite in fiber drum up through vacuum-cleaner wand and hose into wall opening"
- "The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands."
- "In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow-wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wand,wond, vǫndr, *wanduz, *wendʰ-, wand, gewant
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /wɑnd/
- British English: /wɒnd/
Usage
- British usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb