ramble

/ˈɹæmbəl/

ramble noun: a leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.

Noun

ramble (plural rambles)

A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
- Marianne was prevailed upon to join her sisters in their usual walk, instead of wandering away by herself. Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes;[…]1811, Jane Austen, chapter 16, in Sense and Sensibility
- The place was a favourite with all, and the ramble in this quarter was quite a regular custom of the afternoon with the fair heiress of Colonel Walton in particular.1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 138
A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
- Someone proposed that we play in one of the small clearings in a gay crusing ^([sic]) area in Central Park called the rambles.1981 April 25, 10, “Growth Of A Gay Soccer League”, in Gay Community News, page 10

Verb

ramble (third-person singular simple present rambles, present participle rambling, simple past and past participle rambled)

To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
- Weak from drifting on the longest mosey ever rambled. Weeks with no meal or beverage. Blistering desert pounding me to the crosine-tipped ^([sic]) brink of insanity. Yet perhaps there is truth in sand madness.2007 December 9, Xavier Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)
To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.
- We was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
  And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch1994, Richard Thompson, “Beeswing”
(often, with-on, about) To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
- Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.
- She often rambles about bees' behavior, both in the hive and in the field.
Synonyms:

drivel, sperg
To follow a winding path or course.
- The river rambled through the mountains.

ramble meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Thai

ramble in Malayalam

ചുറ്റിസഞ്ചരിക്കുക, ലക്ഷ്യമില്ലാതെ സംസാരിക്കുക, അലഞ്ഞുതിരിയുക

ramble in Kannada

ಸುತ್ತಿಬಳಸಿ ನುಡಿ, ಅಲೆದಾಡು, ಸುತ್ತಾಡು, ಹಬ್ಬು

ramble in Thai

to talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions: เพ้อ pə́ə

Examples of ramble in a sentence

I know that was quite a long ramble, but the TL;DR is that I got fired.
Then, remembering she didn’t know any English, I ramble through a poor Viet version.
We rambled around wet fields and bosky paths that smelled of jasmine.

All 18 example sentences with ramble

Synonyms of ramble

drivel
sperg

Forms of ramble

Noun
plural	rambles
Verb
third-person singular present	rambles
present participle	rambling
past participle	rambled
past	rambled

Plural of ramble: rambles

Origin of ramble

An altered form (with dissimilation of mm to mb) of dialectal rammle, from Middle English *ramlen, *ramelen, frequentative of Middle English ramen (“to roam, ramble”); compare Swedish ramla (“to stumble; fall; make a noise; rumble”), Danish ramle (“to stumble; collapse; thunder; boom”); equivalent to roam + -le. "mid-15 c., perhaps frequentative of 'romen' 'to walk, go' perhaps via 'romblen' (late 14 c.) 'to ramble.' The vowel change perhaps by influence of Middle Dutch 'rammelen,' a derivative of 'rammen' 'copulate,' 'used of the night wanderings of the amorous cat.' Meaning 'to talk or write incoherently' is from 1630s".

Words formed from ramble

Words that rhyme with ramble

Questions about ramble

What does ramble mean?: Ramble means a leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
What is ramble in Urdu?: Ramble in Urdu is چہل قدمی, بےخود ہونا, گھومنا. See Ramble meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is ramble?: Ramble can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ramble?: Ramble is pronounced /ˈɹæmbəl/.
What is the plural of ramble?: The plural of ramble is rambles.

Words near ramble in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: ramble (page history and authors); ramble (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ramble (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ramble (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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