deambulate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To walk independently, especially in contrast to a state where one is physically unable to walk.
Example Sentences
- "From this place we deambulate through several agreeable walks, among which Stepney Green is not the least interesting;"
- "In the most populous thoroughfare of the last-named city, one may deambulate amid the fragrance of lilies, roses, and violets; and from the fascinating importunities of their graceful vendors, he may turn his eyes to the numerous statues which adorn the Piazza del Gran Duca."
- "—it was the time when the citizens of every single town pour into the streets and deambulate slowly for a couple of hours in a dense and complicated ebb and flow."
- "I fell into a hall of resounding spaces and now I deambulate, stuck in the locked grooves of some recurring memories, getting over my damnatio memoriae of a city."
- "His young slaves and the wives of the officers who were attached to his service put on the vestments of mourning and deambulated in the streets in the company of professional mourners who celebrated his funerary oration."
- "Gabus designed and specified the vitrines for the FEMAN, which were constructed in Zurich and shipped and assembled in Dakar. Lit from within, standing tall in the space, they offered a place from which African citizens could deambulate around objects that had always in some sense looked at them from the other side of the vitrine, aptly witnessed from the gallery above."
Etymology
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēambulātus, perfect passive participle of dēambulō (“to walk, take a stroll”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + ambulō (“to walk”). The medical sense is likely a new denominal from deambulation or by translation from Romance languages such as French déambuler and Italian deambulare.