ramble
[verb]
Synonyms:
- walk, range, roam, rove, saunter, stray, stroll, wander
- babble, rabbit (on) (Brit. informal), waffle (informal, chiefly Brit.), witter on (informal)
[noun]
Synonyms:
- walk, hike, roaming, roving, saunter, stroll, tour

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I. ram‧ble¹ /ˈræmbəl/ verb [intransitive]
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: Perhaps from roam]

1. to talk for a long time in a way that does not seem clearly organized, so that other people find it difficult to understand you:
She’s getting old and she tends to ramble a bit.

2. [always + adverb/preposition] British English to go on a walk in the countryside for pleasure ⇒ hike:
There’s plenty to discover as you ramble around this little island.

3. a plant that rambles grows in all directions
ramble on phrasal verb British English
to talk or write for a long time in a way that other people find boring Synonym : go on
ramble on about
My father kept rambling on about the war.

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II. ramble² noun [countable] British English

1. a walk in the countryside for pleasure ⇒ hike:
I quite like the idea of going for a ramble one weekend.

2. a speech or piece of writing that is very long and does not seem to be clearly organized:
In a ten-page ramble, Barre explains why he wrote the book.

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ramble
noun
ADJ. country, nature
VERB + RAMBLE go for/on We went for a ramble over the moors.
PREP. on a ~ The family made the amazing find while on a nature ramble in the woods.

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