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per·am·bu·la·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. perambulationnoun

    a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries

  2. amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulationnoun

    a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)

Wiktionary

  1. perambulationnoun

    A survey, a tour; a walking around.

  2. perambulationnoun

    An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

  3. Etymology: ; alternative surface analysis is.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Perambulationnoun

    Etymology: from perambulate.

    The duke looked still for the coming back of the Armada, even when they were wandering and making their perambulation of the northern seas. Francis Bacon.

    France is a square of five hundred and fifty miles traverse, thronging with such multitudes, that the general calcul, made in the last perambulation exceeded eighteen millions. James Howell.

Wikipedia

  1. Perambulation

    Perambulation noun; is the act of walking around, surveying land, or touring. In English law, its historical meaning is to establish the bounds of a municipality by walking around it.

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  1. perambulation

    Perambulation refers to the act of walking or traveling through or around a place or area, especially for leisure or in an aimless and leisurely manner, often to explore or examine it. It can also refer to a formal walk of inspection, especially to review or survey boundaries or borders. The term can be used in a metaphorical sense as well.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Perambulationnoun

    the act of perambulating; traversing

  2. Perambulationnoun

    an annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc

  3. Perambulationnoun

    a district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of perambulation in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of perambulation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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