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Promenade vs Ramble - What's the difference?

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Promenade is a related term of ramble.


As nouns the difference between promenade and ramble

is that promenade is while ramble is a leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.

As a verb ramble is

to move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.

promenade

English

(wikipedia promenade)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A prom (dance).
  • A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
  • A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise.
  • * 1900 , (Sigmund Freud), (The Interpretation of Dreams)'', '' , (translated by (James Strachey)) pg. 235:
    • The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.

    • Synonyms

    * (a place to walk) esplanade

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To walk.
  • To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.

    • Derived terms

    * promenader (agent noun)

    ramble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
    • Marianne was prevailed upon to join her sisters in their usual walk, instead of wandering away by herself. Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles . If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes
  • *
  • A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
  • (mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
    • (Raymond)
  • A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.

    • Verb

  • To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course
  • To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
  • To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
    • Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.

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