What does saunter mean?
Saunter means (intransitive) To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace..
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/ˈsɔntɚ/ · verb
(intransitive) To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace..
One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.
Meanwhile the young ladies sauntered along—before or behind, as the case might be—in the company of the young business-man and that of another youth who had come out independently on the trolley.
And, after all, they were once very close, doesn’t Lewis still have the keys to his apartment, you know the way you let someone keep the keys after you’ve broken up, only a little because you hope the person might just saunter in, drunk or high, late some evening, […]
Caroline […] begged that the drive might be given up for a saunter about the gardens[…]
walking at a saunter
That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.
Use saunter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Saunter means (intransitive) To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace..
Common synonyms include amble, stroll, ramble, wander.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.
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