Ramble
['ræmb(ə)l] or ['ræmbl]
Definition
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
(v. i.) To extend or grow at random.
(n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
(n.) A bed of shale over the seam.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Rove, wander, stroll, range, roam, straggle, stray.
n. Stroll, excursion, trip, tour, wandering, rambling, roving.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Jaunt, tour, wandering, strolling, excursion
SYN:Rove, roam, wander, range, stroll, saunter, stray
ANT:Course, speed, hasten, drive, run
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Definition
v.i. to go from place to place without object: to visit many places: to be desultory as in discourse.—n. a roving about: an irregular excursion: a place in which to ramble.—n. Ram′bler.—adj. Ram′bling moving about irregularly: desultory.—adv. Ram′blingly in a rambling manner.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are rambling through the country, denotes that you will be oppressed with sadness, and the separation from friends, but your worldly surroundings will be all that one could desire. For a young woman, this dream promises a comfortable home, but early bereavement.
Typist: Serena
Examples
- I was resting at my favourite point after a long ramble, and Charley was gathering violets at a little distance from me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Hackbutt rubbed the back of one hand with the palm of the other held against her chest, and let her eyes ramble over the pattern on the rug. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What do you say to a ramble through London? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She would ramble to the most unfrequented places, and scale dangerous heights, that in those unvisited spots she might wrap herself in loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sister? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- We know that in Rome he was given to ramble about among the poor people, and the taste did not quit him in Middlemarch. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Again I ramble away from thinking it out to the end. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- New scenes have closed upon me; my rambles are at an end. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Who was the Count expected to find in the course of his studious morning rambles at Blackwater Park? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We had been out for one of our evening rambles, Holmes and I, and had returned about six o'clock on a cold, frosty winter's evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I passed three days in these rambles, and at length discovered the open country. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- My rambles, Sam, are over. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The next morning I eagerly began my rambles in search of oblivion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You think so because I am a little rambling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The boy grew so like his mother,' said the woman, rambling on, and not heeding the question, 'that I could never forget it when I saw his face. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Pickwick sat himself down in a chair before the fire, and fell into a train of rambling meditations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By my rambling digressions, I perceive myself to be grown old. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The conversation on Yeobright had been started by a distant view of the young man rambling leisurely across the heath before them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In this strange rambling place I don't know that I could find it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This information--extracted from a long rambling answer in the broadest Cumberland dialect--told me all that I most wanted to know. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Whither we rambled, I scarce knew. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For two hours we rambled about together, in silence for the most part, as befits two men who know each other intimately. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She then ran gaily off, rejoicing as she rambled about, in the hope of being at home again in a day or two. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I rambled away from them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I rambled downstairs to find anything that was like itself, so altered it all seemed; and roamed into the yard. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I rambled round the hamlet, going sometimes to a little distance and returning again, for an hour or more. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I rambled on, oppressed, distracted by painful emotions--suddenly I found myself before Drury Lane Theatre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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