Noun: amble
| Singular | amble |
| Plural | ambles |
Sample Sentences
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slow amble
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casual amble
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The little man was ambling along in the middle of the street, looking around him with an expression of keen interest. [1983 (2022), Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, pages 25-26:]
Nouns inflected like amble
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English amblen, from Old French ambler (“walk as a horse does”), from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambulō (“to walk”). Doublet of ambulate. See: Latin Nouns '
ambulō'.