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Added 10 October 2026

perambulation

/pəˌɹæm.bjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about perambulation at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
The district thus inspected.

Origin

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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