Meaning

(rare) Someone who walks or wanders streets..

Example Sentences

"To see and to be seen," is the professed object of these unwearied vicambulists.

For example, he would stare at the windows of shops; then, when the sales staff would encourage him to enter, he would discount them with indignation that he was not a browser—he was a vicambulist and also an excavator—literary, that is, and he would wink.

I am Professor Shinichiro Kanazawa, Department of Western Philosophy, Kyoto University. My card. I am here as a vicambulist, someone who pleasantly strolls around cities for recreation, though like you I prefer the vernacular 'to ramble.'

Word Forms

• vicambulists

When Should You Use Vicambulist?

Use vicambulist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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