amble

From Middle English amblen, from Old French ambler (“walk as a horse does”), from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambulō (“I walk”).^[1] Doublet of ambulate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bəl/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æmbəl

amble (plural ambles)

1. An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.

   slow amble

   casual amble

   • 1983 (2022), Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, pages 25-26:

     The little man was ambling along in the middle of the street, looking around him with an expression of keen interest.

2. An easy gait, especially that of a horse.
3. (computing) That which follows the preamble, by analogy.

amble (third-person singular simple present ambles, present participle ambling, simple past and past participle ambled)

1. (intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.

   amble through the park

   slow amble

   They decided to amble along the beach at sunset.

   Tourists ambled through the narrow streets of the old town.

2. (intransitive) Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.

• (walk slowly and leisurely): saunter

• ambler
• amblingly

• ambulate
• ambulance
• ambulatory

• Embla, Lambe, Mabel, Mable, Melba, belam, blame, melba

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃bl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

amble

1. inflection of ambler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• blâme, blâmé

amble

1. inflection of amblar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative