- taking a winding or indirect course: The city of Budapest is divided into two parts by the meandering Danube River, spanned by several stunning bridges.
- wandering aimlessly; proceeding seemingly without direction; rambling: I'm unsure how I will condense a meandering narrative of my experiences into a thirty-second elevator pitch.Things proceed in a meandering way between them, until suddenly their relationship comes to a devastatingly emotional climax.
- the act of wandering or proceeding aimlessly or by a winding or indirect course: I digress—but I blame it on the mental meandering of age.After a coffee and some meandering among the displays on the hotel mezzanine, I left the convention.
