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perambulations

perambulations is the plural of perambulation.

Meaning of perambulation

Noun

perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)

  1. (rare) A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
    • If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a...1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10
  2. An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
    • Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.1902, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
    Synonyms:
    bannering
  3. The district thus inspected.

Questions about perambulations

What is perambulations the plural of?
Perambulations is the plural of perambulation.

Words near perambulations in the dictionary

  1. perambulate
  2. perambulated
  3. perambulates
  4. perambulating
  5. perambulation
  6. perambulations
  7. perambulative
  8. perambulatives
  9. perambulator
  10. perambulatorily
  11. perambulators

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