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Definition of ramble noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ramble

noun
 
/ˈræmbl/
 
/ˈræmbl/
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  1. (especially British English) a long walk for pleasure
    • to go for a ramble in the country
    • We went for a ramble over the moors.
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • country
    • nature
    verb + ramble
    • go for
    • go on
    preposition
    • on a ramble
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  2. a long confused speech or piece of writing
    • She went into a long ramble about the evils of television.
  3. 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.
See ramble in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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