1
: a slender staff carried in a procession : verge
2
: a slender rod used by conjurers and magicians
3
: a slat six feet by two inches used as a target in archery
also
: a narrow strip of paper pasted vertically on a target face
4
: any of various pipelike devices
especially
: the rigid tube between the hose and the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner
5
: a handheld device used to enter information (as from a bar code) into a computer
Examples of wand in a Sentence
The cashier used a wand to scan the bar code.
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Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Fire up the flirt pole Cats have teaser wands, dogs have flirt poles.
—Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
No broomsticks, no pointy hats, no wands.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Dust off your spell books, grab your brooms and ready your wands, because a magical new adventure is coming to Greater Cincinnati this fall.
—Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Wand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wand. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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wand
noun1
: a slender rod used in performing magic
2
: a light rod or tube
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