- perambulatory
- adjective see perambulate
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
perambulatory
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perambulatory — perambulate ► VERB 1) formal walk or travel from place to place. 2) Brit. historical walk round (a parish, forest, etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries. DERIVATIVES perambulation noun perambulatory adjective. ORIGIN Latin … English terms dictionary
perambulatory — See perambulation. * * * … Universalium
perambulatory — per·am·bu·la·to·ry … English syllables
perambulatory — ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ləˌtōrē, tȯr , ri adjective Etymology: perambulate + ory 1. : inclined to move about : itinerant 2. : of, relating to, or characterized by perambulation … Useful english dictionary
Preambulous — Pre*am bu*lous, a. [See {Preamble}, n.] See {Perambulatory}. [R.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
perambulate — verb ( lated; lating) Etymology: Latin perambulatus, past participle of perambulare, from per through + ambulare to walk Date: 1568 transitive verb 1. to travel over or through especially on foot ; traverse 2. to make an official inspection of (a … New Collegiate Dictionary
perambulate — perambulation, n. perambulatory /peuhr am byeuh leuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. /peuhr am byeuh layt /, v., perambulated, perambulating. v.t. 1. to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse. 2. to traverse in order to examine or inspect … Universalium
perambulator — noun a baby carriage; a pram That will be all this afternoon, he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway. Syn: pram See Also: perambulate, perambulation, perambulatory … Wiktionary
ambulatory — Synonyms and related words: access, aisle, alley, ambulant, ambulative, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, channel, circuit riding, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, covered way, defile, exit, expeditionary, ferry … Moby Thesaurus
going — Synonyms and related words: abandonment, accepted, acting, active, activity, actuation, affluent, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, annihilation, ascending, at work, axial, back, back flowing, backward, bad, bane, biological death, blackout,… … Moby Thesaurus
