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• WordNet 3.6
  • v ramble 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","They rolled from town to town"
  • v ramble continue talking or writing in a desultory manner "This novel rambles on and jogs"
  • n ramble an aimless amble on a winding course
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• • Ramble (Coal Mining) A bed of shale over the seam.
  • Ramble 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 Christmas ramble ."
  • Ramble A section of woods suitable for leisurely walking.
  • Ramble a type of dance; as, the Muskrat ramble .
  • Ramble To extend or grow at random.
  • Ramble To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
  • Ramble 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?"
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• • ramble To roam or wander about in a leisurely manner; go from point to point carelessly or irregularly; rove: as, to ramble about the eity or over the country.
  • ramble To take a wavering or wandering course; proceed with irregular turns, windings, or transitions; show a lack of definite direction or arrangement: as, a rambling path or house; a rambling discourse; the vine rambles every way; he rambled on in his incoherent speech.
  • ramble To reel; stagger.
  • ramble Synonyms Ramble, Stroll, Saunter, Rove, Roam, Wander, Range., Stray. Ramble, by derivation, also stroll and saunter, and stray when used in this sense, express a less extended course than the others. To ramble or stroll is to go about, as fancy leads, for the pleasure of being abroad. To saunter is to go along idly, and therefore slowly. One may saunter or stroll, stray or wander, along one street as far as it goes. To ramble, rove, or roam is to pursue a course that is not very straight. One may rove, roam, or wander with some briskness or for some object, as in search of a lost child. One may wander about or stray about because he has lost his way. The wild beast ranges, roves, or roams in search of prey. Roam expresses most of definite purpose: as, to roam over Europe.
  • n ramble A roving or wandering movement; a going or turning about irregularly or indefinitely; especially, a leisurely or sauntering walk in varying directions.
  • n ramble A place to ramble in; a mazy walk or tract.
  • n ramble In coal-mining, thin shaly beds of stone, taken down with the coal, above which a good roof may be met with.
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• • v.i Ramble ram′bl to go from place to place without object: to visit many places: to be desultory, as in discourse
  • n Ramble a roving about: an irregular excursion: a place in which to ramble
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