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rambler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From ramble + -er.

Meanings

  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. 2023 October 18, Dr Joseph Brennan, “On the track of fabulous footbridges: Roxburgh”, in RAIL, number 994, page 59:
  2. (US, poetic) A drifter, a vagabond
  3. One who rambles.
  4. Synonym of rambling rose.
  5. (US) A ranch-style house.
    • I like being mother and wife. We've lived in a rambler in West Valley City, Utah for three years. 2002, Marcia Tuttle, Turning Thirty/Forty/Fifty: A Journal, page 3:

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Deriveds

rambler gate · rambler rose

Relateds

ramble · rambling

Synonyms

rambling rose