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PERAMBULATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perambulating mean?
• PERAMBULATING (adjective)
The adjective PERAMBULATING has 1 sense:
1. strolling or walking around
Familiarity information: PERAMBULATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strolling or walking around
Context example:
perambulating nursemaids with their charges
Similar:
mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))
Context examples
You are a chimney, a living volcano, a perambulating smoke-stack, and you are a perfect disgrace, Martin dear, you know you are.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They were perambulating skeletons.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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