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noun
A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rare, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ambulation, walking, walk, moving, movement
noun
An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
Synonyms: bannering
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The district thus inspected.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: walk
Narrower terms: ramble, meander, walkabout
noun
a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: walk
History
From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.
