rambler

English

Etymology

From ramble +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æmblə(ɹ)

Noun

rambler (plural ramblers)

1. A recreational walker, a hiker.
   • 2023 October 18, Dr Joseph Brennan, “On the track of fabulous footbridges: Roxburgh”, in RAIL, number 994, page 59:

     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.

2. (poetic, US) A drifter, a vagabond
3. One who rambles.
4. Synonym of rambling rose.
5. (US) A ranch-style house.
   • 2002, Marcia Tuttle, Turning Thirty/Forty/Fifty: A Journal, page 3:

     I like being mother and wife. We've lived in a rambler in West Valley City, Utah for three years.

Derived terms

• rambler gate
• rambler rose

Related terms

• ramble
• rambling

Translations

recreational walker — see hiker

Anagrams

• marbler