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amble - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

amble (plural ambles)

  • An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
    • ✤ *slow amble *
    • ✤ *casual amble *
    • ✤ The little man was ambling along in the middle of the street, looking around him with an expression of keen interest.1
  • An easy gait, especially that of a horse.
  • (computing) That which follows the preamble, by analogy.

Verb

amble (third-person singular simple present ambles, present participle ambling, simple past and past participle ambled)

  • (intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.
    • ✤ * amble through the park*
    • ✤ *slow amble *
    • ✤ They decided to amble along the beach at sunset.
    • ✤ Tourists ambled through the narrow streets of the old town.
  • (intransitive) Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.

Etymology

From Middle English amblen, from Old French ambler (“walk as a horse does”), from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambulō (“to walk”).2 Doublet of ambulate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈæm.bəl/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -æmbəl

Printed 2026-09-15.

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Footnotes

  1. 1983 (2022), Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, pages 25-26: ↩

  2. Funk, W. J., Word origins and their romantic stories, New York, Wilfred Funk, Inc. ↩

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