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amble

/ˈæm.bəl/

amble noun: an unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.

Noun

amble (plural ambles)

  1. An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
    • slow amble
    • casual amble
  2. An easy gait, especially that of a horse.
  3. That which follows the preamble, by analogy.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.
    • amble through the park
    • slow amble
    Synonyms:
    saunter
  2. (intransitive) Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.

Proper noun capitalized: Amble

Amble

  1. A town, harbour, and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2604).
  2. A minor river in Cornwall, England, which flows into the River Camel estuary (OS grid ref SW9974).
  3. An unincorporated community in Winfield Township, Montcalm County, Michigan, United States.

amble meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

amble in Urdu

آرام آرام سے چَلنا, دو گامَہ چَلنا, راہوار چَلنا, دُلَکی چَلنا, خرامہ خرامہ

amble in Malayalam

മന്ദഗമനം ചെയ്യുക

amble in Kannada

ಮೆಲ್ಲನಡೆ, ತೊಂಗಿನಡೆ

Examples of amble in a sentence

  • They decided to amble along the beach at sunset.
  • Tourists ambled through the narrow streets of the old town.

All 22 example sentences with amble

Synonyms of amble

Forms of amble

Noun
pluralambles
Verb
third-person singular presentambles
present participleambling
past participleambled
pastambled

Origin of amble

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

Words formed from amble

Words that rhyme with amble

Questions about amble

What does amble mean?
Amble means an unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
What is amble in Urdu?
Amble in Urdu is آرام آرام سے چَلنا, دو گامَہ چَلنا, راہوار چَلنا. See Amble meaning in Urdu.
How do you use amble in a sentence?
They decided to amble along the beach at sunset.
What part of speech is amble?
Amble can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce amble?
Amble is pronounced /ˈæm.bəl/.
What is the plural of amble?
The plural of amble is ambles.

Words near amble in the dictionary

  1. ambiverts
  2. ambivore
  3. ambivores
  4. ambivorous
  5. ambix
  6. amble
  7. Amblecote
  8. ambled
  9. ambler
  10. amblers
  11. ambles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amble (page history and authors); Amble (page history and authors); amble (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amble (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amble (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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