ramble
noun/ˈræmbl/
/ˈræmbl/
- (especially British English) a long walk for pleasure
- to go for a ramble in the country
- We went for a ramble over the moors.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- country
- nature
- go for
- go on
- on a ramble
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- a long confused speech or piece of writing
- She went into a long ramble about the evils of television.
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2)): probably related to Middle Dutch rammelen, used of animals in the sense ‘wander about on heat’, also to the noun ram.
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