travel vs wander

travel

noun
  • The act of traveling; passage from place to place. 

  • An account of one's travels. 

  • The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. 

  • The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point. 

  • Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. 

  • A series of journeys. 

verb
  • To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. 

  • To travel throughout (a place). 

  • To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit 

  • To force to journey. 

  • To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. 

wander

noun
  • An act or instance of wandering. 

  • The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value. 

verb
  • To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path. 

  • To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. 

  • Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention. 

  • To stray; stray from one's course; err. 

  • To commit adultery. 

How often have the words travel and wander occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )