Rambler
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A recreational walker, a hiker.
"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."
- 2 a person whose speech or writing is not well organized wordnet
- 3 A drifter, a vagabond US, poetic
- 4 a person who takes long walks in the country wordnet
- 5 One who rambles.
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- 6 Synonym of rambling rose.
- 7 A ranch-style house. US
"I like being mother and wife. We've lived in a rambler in West Valley City, Utah for three years."
Example
More examples"Both rutting boars and sows with their young can be dangerous to the careless woodland rambler."
Etymology
From ramble + -er.
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