perambulate

1. 1.

   make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property)

   “Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years”

   Broaderinspect
2. 2.

   walk with no particular goal

   “we were walking around in the garden”

   “after breakfast, she walked about in the park”

   Synonymswalk aboutwalk around

   Broaderwalk

Other forms of perambulate

past tense

perambulated·

present participle

perambulating·

third person

perambulates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perambulate

What does perambulate mean?

perambulate means "make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perambulate?

perambulate has 4 syllables: pe-ram-bu-late. The stress falls on "ram".

What is another word for perambulate?

Close synonyms include walk about, walk around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perambulate a common word?

perambulate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.