Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To walk through.
- v. To inspect (an area) on foot.
- v. To walk about; roam or stroll.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To walk through, about, or over.
- To survey while passing through; traverse and examine; survey the boundaries of: as, to perambulate a parish or its boundaries.
- To walk, or walk about.
- To be carried in a, perambulator.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
- v. To walk about; to ramble; to stroll.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property)
- v. walk with no particular goal
Etymologies
- Latin perambulāre, perambulāt- : per-, per- + ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The spatial character of architectural mnemonics — that one would "perambulate" cloisters and palaces in the mind, composing narratives with the ornaments and images arrayed therein — reflects a phenomenological dimension to thought that may be quite foreign to a modern-day observer.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“While healthy elephants can trudge long distances in search of water, "weak and sick" animals are unable to "perambulate" and succumb, says forest veterinarian Dr N.S. Manoharan.”
“Then again, I'm positively balmy myself, so I was prepared to perambulate with a pack of pinniped pals.”
“But for many of us, pedestrians are the major threat, particularly when they perambulate in an iPod bubble.”
“Unlike the Tuilleries, the Luxembourg is where Parisians go to perambulate.”
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
“Go on, now: bust a move, or whatever it is you homeboys do to help you perambulate.”
“I find myself having to tell my students to unlearn this tendency by, among others, asking them to throw their thesaurus away, especially when the only reason they turn to it is to find a fancier word for something as basic as “talk” (expostulate?) or “walk” (perambulate?)”
“This is because New York is a crowded city, and our pedestrians meaning, really, all of us are innately compelled towards broad thoroughfares on which to perambulate.”
“Instead of jawboning on cell phones, we discuss politics, our kids, religion, gardening and local “gossip” as we perambulate.”
“This makes them fine, cooperative walking companions—better than many humans I perambulate the city with, whom I constantly knock into as I lead them on a preferred route.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘perambulate’.
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Kangaroo Words
Words containing letters in sequence, together or apart, that form a definition or instance of the subsuming word. E.g., conTAmINaTe = the kangaroo word. TAINT = the joey. Theme from a NYT X-word ...
encourage, chariot, precipitation, neurotic, feaster, unsightly, charisma, inheritor, masculine, honorable, contaminate, regulate and 103 more...
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see ulater, alligator
Discombobulate-enkindled 'ulate' words.
discombobulate, undulate, perambulate, ululate, tabulate, postulate, particulate, articulate, inarticulate, populate, manipulate, capitulate and 95 more...
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Words for Anna
exacerbate, pixilate, obviate, placate, titilate, interpolate, perambulate, vacillate, abnegate, indignant, perpetrate, conjure and 7 more...
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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RealLifePixel's Bad-Ass Words
Words so awesome they'll kick your eyeballs' asses!
cucurbitaceous, sacerdotal, loudhailer, bildungsroman, sublation, marmoreal, recusant, velleity, hardscrabble, malinger, miasma, brennschluss and 76 more...
sionnach joeys: ramble & amble Apr 23, 2008