perambulation

n. 徘徊, 巡回, 勘查

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perambulations 复数 perambulations

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.

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  2. 2.

    An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

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    1902, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.

    1929, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.

  3. 3.

    The district thus inspected.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

stroll promenade saunter amble

上位词 1

walk

下位词 3

ramble walkabout meander

词源

From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.

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