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WALKABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walkabout mean? 

WALKABOUT (noun)
  The noun WALKABOUT has 3 senses:

1. a walking trip or tourplay

2. a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informallyplay

3. nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigineplay

  Familiarity information: WALKABOUT used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


WALKABOUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A walking trip or tour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("walkabout" is a kind of...):

circuit; tour (a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area)

Derivation:

walk about (walk with no particular goal)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("walkabout" is a kind of...):

amble; perambulation; promenade; saunter; stroll (a leisurely walk (usually in some public place))


Sense 3

Meaning:

Nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("walkabout" is a kind of...):

walk (the act of walking somewhere)

Domain region:

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)


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