wand

noun

ˈwänd 

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.

Recent Examples on the Web

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

My hair came out like soft silk with just one pass of the wand at the second to hottest temp! —Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2025

The wand of a canister vacuum can often extend like a telescope, or accept extension tubes. —Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025

The MaraX’s steam wand is powerful without being unwieldy, and our testers felt in control when texturing both dairy and oat milk. —Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, slender stick, from Old Norse vǫndr; probably akin to Old English windan to wind, twist — more at wind entry 3

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Phrases Containing wand

• magic wand

Rhymes for wand

• awned
• blond
• blonde
• bond
• conned
• dawned
• donned
• fond
• frond
• gond
• maund
• pawned

Kids Definition

wand

noun

ˈwänd 

1

: a slender rod used in performing magic

2

: a light rod or tube