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ramble

2 noun
     
Related topics: Outdoor
ramble2 [countable] British English
1DLO a walk in the countryside for pleasure [↪ hike]:
I quite like the idea of going for a ramble one weekend.
2 a speech or piece of writing that is very long and does not seem to be clearly organized:
In a ten-page ramble, Barre explains why he wrote the book.
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