Stroll

//stɹəʊl// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.
  2. 2
    a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) wordnet
  3. 3
    A dance of the 1950s in which dancers leisurely stepped, cross-stepped, and dipped at the knee to the beat of the music.
Verb
  1. 1
    To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

    "In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality."

  2. 2
    walk leisurely and with no apparent aim wordnet
  3. 3
    To go somewhere with ease.

    "[A] delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands."

  4. 4
    To walk the streets as a prostitute. intransitive, slang

    ""Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. / "Don't even ask. You don't want to know.""

  5. 5
    To do, obtain, or achieve something in a casual and effortless way. intransitive

    "My daughter strolled through the exam."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).

Etymology 3

Anglicization of Strulovitch, Strulovic, Strulović. From Russian

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