rambler
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æmblə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]rambler (plural ramblers)
- A recreational walker, a hiker.
- 2023 October 18, Dr Joseph Brennan, “On the track of fabulous footbridges: Roxburgh”, in RAIL, number 994, page 59:
- The Category B listing for this footbridge is well-warranted - just ask any rambler who has enjoyed it as an industrial jewel in the above-the-River-Teviot portion of Border Abbeys Way.
- (poetic, US) A drifter, a vagabond
- One who rambles.
- Synonym of rambling rose.
- (US) A ranch-style house.
- 2002, Marcia Tuttle, Turning Thirty/Forty/Fifty: A Journal, page 3:
- I like being mother and wife. We've lived in a rambler in West Valley City, Utah for three years.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]recreational walker — see hiker