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vicambulist

vicambulist noun: someone who walks or wanders streets.

Noun

vicambulist (plural vicambulists)

  1. (rare) Someone who walks or wanders streets.
    • "To see and to be seen," is the professed object of these unwearied vicambulists.1821, “The King of Clubs”, in The Etonian, volume I, number I, →OCLC, page 5
    • For example, he would stare at the windows of shops; then, when the sales staff would encourage him to enter, he would discount them with indignation that he was not a browser—he was a vicambulist and also an excavator—literary, that is, and he would wink.2011, T. Byram Karasu, Gotham Chronicles: The Culture of Sociopathy, Lanham, M.D. […]: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 134

Forms of vicambulist

pluralvicambulists

Origin of vicambulist

From Latin vīcus (“street”) + -ambulist (“walker”). Later popularized by its inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary and thence various "rare word" lists.

Questions about vicambulist

What does vicambulist mean?
Vicambulist means someone who walks or wanders streets.
What part of speech is vicambulist?
Vicambulist is a noun.
What is the plural of vicambulist?
The plural of vicambulist is vicambulists.

Words near vicambulist in the dictionary

  1. viburnum
  2. viburnums
  3. viby
  4. vic
  5. vic.
  6. vicambulist
  7. vicambulists
  8. Vican
  9. vicar
  10. vicar apostolic
  11. vicar choral

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