rambler

rambler

English

Etymology

    From ramble + -er.

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    • Rhymes: -æmblə(ɹ)

    Noun

    rambler (plural ramblers)

    1. 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.
    2. (poetic, US) A drifter, a vagabond
    3. One who rambles.
    4. Synonym of rambling rose.
    5. (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.

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