ramble Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an aimless amble on a winding course
    meander.
  2. verb continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
    ramble on; jog.
    • This novel rambles on and jogs
  3. verb move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
    stray; cast; swan; drift; wander; tramp; range; rove; roam; vagabond; roll.
    • The gypsies roamed the woods
    • roving vagabonds
    • the wandering Jew
    • The cattle roam across the prairie
    • the laborers drift from one town to the next
    • They rolled from town to town

WordNet


Ram"ble intransitive verb
Etymology
For rammle, fr. Prov. E. rame to roam. Cf. Roam.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Rambled ; present participle & verbal noun Rambling
Definitions
  1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
    He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind? Locke.
  2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
  3. To extend or grow at random. Thomson. Syn. -- To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.
Ram"ble noun
Definitions
  1. A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
    Coming home, after a short Christians ramble. Swift.
  2. Cf. Rammel. (Coal Mining) A bed of shale over the seam. Raymond.
  3. A section of woods suitable for liesurely walking.

Webster 1913