saunter

1. 1.

   walk leisurely and with no apparent aim

   Synonymsstroll

   Broaderwalk

Other forms of saunter

plural

saunters·

past tense

saunterred·

present participle

saunterring·

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 saunter

What does saunter mean?

saunter means "a careless leisurely gait". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saunter?

saunter has 2 syllables: saun-ter. The stress falls on "saun". In IPA it is /ˈsɔntɚ/.

What is another word for saunter?

Close synonyms include amble, promenade, stroll, perambulation, stroll. 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 saunter a common word?

saunter is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.