perambulating

1. 1.

   strolling or walking around

   “perambulating nursemaids with their charges”

   Similarmobile

Questions about perambulating

What does perambulating mean?

perambulating means "strolling or walking around".

How many syllables are in perambulating?

perambulating has 5 syllables and divides as pe-ram-bu-la-ting under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is perambulating a common word?

perambulating 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.