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ramble verb [ ˈramb(ə)l ]

• walk for pleasure in the countryside.
• "I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing"
Similar: walk, take a walk, go for a walk, hike, tramp, backpack, trek, wander, stroll, saunter, amble, drift, roam, range, rove, traipse, jaunt, stravaig, mosey, tootle, pootle, vagabond, perambulate, peregrinate,
• talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.
• "Willy rambled on about Norman archways"
Similar: chatter, babble, prattle, prate, blather, blether, gabble, jabber, twitter, go on, run on, rattle on/away, blither, maunder, drivel, jaw, gas, gab, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, shoot one's mouth off, witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle, run off at the mouth, mag, twaddle, clack, twattle,
• (of a plant) put out long shoots and grow over walls or other plants.
• "roses climbed, rambled, hung over walls"

ramble noun

• a walk taken for pleasure in the countryside.
Similar: walk, hike, trek, wander, stroll, saunter, amble, roam, traipse, jaunt, promenade, trip, excursion, tour, mosey, tootle, pootle, perambulation, peregrination,
Origin: late Middle English (in ramble (sense 2 of the verb)): probably related to Middle Dutch rammelen, used of animals in the sense ‘wander about on heat’, also to the noun ram.


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