Meaning of RAMBLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'rambul
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- [v] move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"
- [v] continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs"
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | amble, cast, drift, jog, perambulation, promenade, ramble on, range, roam, rove, saunter, stray, stroll, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| |
| | See Also: | | carry on, continue, gad, gallivant, go, go on, jazz around, locomote, maunder, move, proceed, travel, walk, walkabout | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
\Ram"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rambled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Rambling}.] [For rammle, fr. Prov. E. rame to roam. Cf.
{Roam}.]
1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any
determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or
irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the
city; to ramble over the world.
He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness,
what is his liberty better than if driven up and
down as a bubble by the wind? --Locke.
2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
3. To extend or grow at random. --Thomson.
Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.
\Ram"ble\, n.
1. A going or moving from place to place without any
determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll
merely for recreation.
Coming home, after a short Christians ramble.
--Swift.
2. [Cf. {Rammel}.] (Coal Mining) A bed of shale over the
seam. --Raymond.
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
|
|