stroll

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a leisurely walk, usually in some public place

   We took a stroll through the park after lunch.

2. 2
   verb

   To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.

   In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality.

3. 3
   verb

   To go somewhere with ease.

   [A] delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

4. 4
   verb

   To walk the streets as a prostitute.

   "Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. / "Don't even ask. You don't want to know.".

Simplified etymology

Stroll entered English in the early 17th century and was formed from German Strolch, meaning “vagabond.”

Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).

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