saunter
to walk slowly and relaxedly
TRANSLATION
saunter = schlendern --- GOOGLE INDEX saunter: approximately 2,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
It was not unusual for cigarette smuggler Gary Thompson to SAUNTER into banks several times a week and pay in cash sums of up to £20,000.
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Europeans in white bath robes SAUNTER across the marble lobby of a luxury hotel on the Tunisian island of Djerba, heading for a spot of relaxation at the spa or a few hours' soaking up the sun on the resort's pristine beaches.
(Reuters)
(BBC News)
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Europeans in white bath robes SAUNTER across the marble lobby of a luxury hotel on the Tunisian island of Djerba, heading for a spot of relaxation at the spa or a few hours' soaking up the sun on the resort's pristine beaches.
(Reuters)
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saunter
verb
- walk in a slow, relaxed manner
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Prior to publication of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the most influential English language reference was Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" from 1755. Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Walter Jackson Bate, an American media critic and biographer of Johnson says the dictionary "easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship."
Despite such praise, some of Johnson's research work has since been scrutinized more closely, revealing errors on occasion. He claimed for instance that saunter stemmed either from the French expression "aller a la sainte terre," which refers to idle people roving about the country begging for money under the pretence of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, or "sans terre," as in having no permanent home.
Others have suggested that saunter is from the Anglo-French sauntrer and French s'aventurer, "to take risks." Modern lexicographers meanwhile believe that neither theory is the real source and that saunter is simply of obscure origin.
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SYNONYMS
amble, stroll, meander, loiter, mosey, ramble, sashay, wander
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"How about us sauntering over to the pizzaria for lunch?"
verb
- walk in a slow, relaxed manner
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Prior to publication of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the most influential English language reference was Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" from 1755. Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Walter Jackson Bate, an American media critic and biographer of Johnson says the dictionary "easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship."
Despite such praise, some of Johnson's research work has since been scrutinized more closely, revealing errors on occasion. He claimed for instance that saunter stemmed either from the French expression "aller a la sainte terre," which refers to idle people roving about the country begging for money under the pretence of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, or "sans terre," as in having no permanent home.
Others have suggested that saunter is from the Anglo-French sauntrer and French s'aventurer, "to take risks." Modern lexicographers meanwhile believe that neither theory is the real source and that saunter is simply of obscure origin.
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SYNONYMS
amble, stroll, meander, loiter, mosey, ramble, sashay, wander
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"How about us sauntering over to the pizzaria for lunch?"
