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STROLL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A leisurely walk (usually in some public place)

Synonyms:

amble; perambulation; promenade; saunter; stroll

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("stroll" is a kind of...):

walk (the act of walking somewhere)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stroll"):

meander; ramble (an aimless amble on a winding course)

walkabout (a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally)

Derivation:

stroll (walk leisurely and with no apparent aim)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim

Synonyms:

saunter; stroll

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "stroll" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They stroll down the river

Derivation:

stroll (a leisurely walk (usually in some public place))

stroller (someone who walks at a leisurely pace)

Credits

 Context examples: 

And now, Watson, let us have a little stroll round in the sunshine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But on this point I was soon to be relieved, for Silver giving a little whistle, a third man strolled up and sat down by the party.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As I strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When you stroll through a garden, you may notice several shades of golden daffodils and recognize the chirping of several types of birds.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)

Fanny could not wonder that Edmund was at the Parsonage every morning; she would gladly have been there too, might she have gone in uninvited and unnoticed, to hear the harp; neither could she wonder that, when the evening stroll was over, and the two families parted again, he should think it right to attend Mrs. Grant and her sister to their home, while Mr. Crawford was devoted to the ladies of the Park; but she thought it a very bad exchange; and if Edmund were not there to mix the wine and water for her, would rather go without it than not.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that had happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of which he attended himself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After a hearty meal and a dip in the trough to wash the dust from them, they strolled forth into the bailey, where the bowman peered about through the darkness at wall and at keep, with the carping eyes of one who has seen something of sieges, and is not likely to be satisfied.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But no—eventide is as pleasant to him as to me, and this antique garden as attractive; and he strolls on, now lifting the gooseberry-tree branches to look at the fruit, large as plums, with which they are laden; now taking a ripe cherry from the wall; now stooping towards a knot of flowers, either to inhale their fragrance or to admire the dew-beads on their petals.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was a very fine evening, and my mother and he had another stroll by the sweetbriar, while I was sent in to get my tea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)