Saunter

Definitions: Saunter

Saunter

Noun

1. A careless leisurely gait; "he walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn't a care in the world".

2. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).

Verb

1. Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim.

Date "saunter" was first used: 1475. (references)

Synonyms: Saunter

Synonyms: amble (n), perambulation (n), promenade (n), ramble (n), stroll (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Journey	Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
	Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.
Slowness	Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Saunter

English words defined with "saunter": Santer, Sauntered, Sauntering, Streel ♦ To knock about. (references)

Specialty definitions using "saunter": TO TROLL. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A spring-time saunter : round and about Brontèe land (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Saunter" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.84% of the time. "Saunter" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	54.84%	17	85,106
Noun (singular)	25.81%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)	19.35%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	31	N/A

Expressions using "saunter": saunter about ♦ saunter through the streets ♦ saunter up to smb.. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "saunter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shëtitje (jaunt, outing, promenade, ride, round, Sally, stroll, walk, walking), bredhje (divagation, gad, ramble, roam, rove, vagrancy, wandering). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشى الهوينى, ‏سير متئد. (various references)

Bulgarian		разхождам се бавно (stroll), шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, idle, loaf, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, mosey, screw around, swan around, vagabond), бавна разходка (amble). (various references)

Chinese		闲逛. (various references)

Czech		procházka (constitutional, jaunt, ramble, stroll, walk, wander), loudat se (amble, dally, dawdle, dawdle about, dawdle over one's work, hang back, hang behind, lag, linger, loiter, trail, traipse), courat se (dawdle about, loiter, traipse), špacír (jaunt). (various references)

French		se balader, flâner, balade. (various references)

German		schlendern (amble, meander, roam, stroll, to amble, to saunter, to stroll, wander), bummeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, gallivant, goof, hang around, idle, idle about, idle around, loiter, poke about, poke around, roam, slack, stroll, take it easy, to stroll, wander). (various references)

Greek		σουλατσάρω (amble, lounge about, stroll, walk about). (various references)

Hebrew		לטיל ל�"� אתו. (various references)

Hungarian		séta (jog, outing, perambulation, ramble, stroll, walk, walking), lézengés (loafing), lődörgés, korzózás, kószálás (dawdling, prowl, ramble, rambling, ramblings, roam, roaming, rove, rovingness, stroll), kódorgás, csatangolás (hike), barangolás (roaming, roving), őgyelgés (loafing), ődöngés (dawdling). (various references)

Italian		gironzolare (hover, ramble, roam, stroll about, traipse, wander about). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		逍遥 (ramble, walk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうよう (admiration, business purpose, calm, composure, exalting, extolling, for business, on business, praise, ramble, stroll, trifling matter, urination, urine, walk, wandering). (various references)

Manx		tauinterys, tauinteraght, streeley (loiter, loitering, lounge, lounging). (various references)

Pig Latin		auntersay

Portuguese		passeio (causeway, Causey, crosswalk, footpath, footway, jaunt, Mall, out, outing, pavement, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, roam, run, scramble, sidewalk, stroll, tour, trip, tripping, walk, walkway, wandering), passear (perambulation, promenade, stroll, toddle, walk, wander), deambular (prowl, ramble, roam, rove). (various references)

Romanian		hoinãri (dally, gad, linger, loaf, loiter, loll about, meander, ramble, roam, rove, scour about, stand about, stroll, wander). (various references)

Russian		медленная походка, прогулка (airing, drive, excursion, jaunt, journey, outing, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, stroll, turn, walk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tumarati (gad about, loiter, lounge, maunder, moon, prowl, roam, wander), gegati, geganje (plod, shuffle, stagger, waddle), šetnja (outing, promenade, stroll, tramp, walk), šetati se (stroll, walk). (various references)

Spanish		paso lento, paseo (alley, constitutional, corridor, crossing, drive, excursion, expedition, gut, junket, Mall, outing, passage, perambulation, platform, promenade, public walking, ride, row, sail, Sally, shoulder, spin, stroll, tour, trip, verge, walk, walking, wander), pasearse (drive, foresight, go for a walk, mosey, parade up and down, promenade, ramble, stroke, stroll, walk, walk about, walk around, walking, wander). (various references)

Swedish		spatsera (amble, go for a walk, stroll), flanera (loaf, lounge, lounge about, lounge around, ramble, stroll, walk). (various references)

Thai		เ�"ินทอ�"น่อง (loaf, lounge), การเ�"ินทอ�"น่อง. (various references)

Turkish		gezinme (ramble, roam, strolling, tramp, walkabout, wandering), boş boş gezmek, aylak aylak dolaşmak (bum, bum around, fool about, fool around, hang about, hang around, idle about, roam about, slop around, slope around), aylak aylak dolaşma. (various references)

Turkmen		aяlanjyramak. (various references)

Ukranian		рухатися повільно (barge), фланірувати, фланерство, прогулюватися (promenade, ride out, stroll, walk about), прогулянка (airing, outleap, promenade, ramble, ride, round, stroll, tour), повільна ходьба (jog). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự đi thơ thẩn (lounge), sự đi nh� n tản dáng đi thơ thẩn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Middle English	1100-1500	santren. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "saunter": sauntered, saunterer, saunterers, sauntering, saunters. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Saunter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aluntur, auntre, Mautner, saintee, Santero, santor, saulter, saunder, Saunher, saunier, Saunt, saunted, sauntere, saunterers, sautoir, seuter, sonter, sunter, Zeuner. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "saunter" (pronounced sô"nter)
3	-n t er	banter, blunter, canter, Cantor, carpenter, center, centre, counter, covenanter, discounter, dissenter, enchanter, encounter, enter, epicenter, experimenter, fainter, grantor, headhunter, Hunter, inventor, mentor, Midwinter, Minter, multicenter, overwinter, painter, planter, pointer, presenter, printer, punter, reenter, renter, splinter, sprinter, Stentor, Supercenter, tormentor, Venter, winter.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: natures.
	Words within the letters "a-e-n-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: antres, astern, nature, santur, sterna, tuners, unrest, unseat, urates.
	-2 letters: antes, antre, aster, aunts, aures, earns, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, nurse, rants, rates, rents, runes, runts, saner, saute, snare, stane, stare, stern, sutra, tares, tarns, tears, terns, trans, trues, tunas, tuner, tunes, turns, unset, urase, urate, ureas, ursae, usnea.
	-3 letters: anes, ante, ants, anus, ares, arse, arts, ates, aunt, earn, ears, east, eats, eras, erns, erst, etas, etna, near, neat, nest, nets, nuts, rant, rase, rate, rats, rent, rest, rets, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, sane, sate, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, star, stun, suer, suet, sura, sure, tans, tare, tarn, tars, taus, tear, teas, tens, tern, true, tsar, tuna, tune, tuns, turn, urea, urns, ursa, user, utas.
	-4 letters: ane, ant, are, ars, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, ens, era, ern, ers, eta, nae, net, nus, nut, ran, ras, rat, res, ret, rue, run, rut, sae, sat, sau, sea, sen, ser, set, sue, sun, tae, tan, tar, tas, tau, tea, ten, tun, uns, urn, use, uta, uts.
	-5 letters: ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, nu, re, ta, un, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: anestrus, centaurs, daunters, haunters, menstrua, neutrals, outearns, recusant, ruinates, saunters, sauterne, taunters, taurines, transude, uncrates, unearths, untreads, uranites, urbanest, urethans, urinates, vaunters.
	+2 letters: aeronauts, anestrous, antiquers, antiserum, argentums, arguments, assurgent, braunites, breadnuts, chaunters, courantes, courtesan, denatures, earthnuts, estuarine, flaunters, gauntries, indurates, menstrual, nectarous, numerates, outlearns, outrances, outranges, quarterns, recusants, renatures, resultant, retinulas, ruminates, runagates, sarmentum, saturnine, sauntered, saunterer, sauternes, signature, stauncher, subaltern, sunbather, sustainer, transduce, transfuse, transmute, transuded, transudes, truancies, truncates, uncreates, underacts, undereats, unfairest, unstabler, unthreads, unwariest, urbanites, urethanes.
	+3 letters: abruptness, adventures, anestruses, antiserums, artfulness, augmenters, augmentors, banqueters, calentures, centaureas, centauries, courantoes, courtesans, crustacean, enraptures, entourages, enumerates, equestrian, eutherians, extraneous, gangbuster, garnitures, granulates, granulites, guarantees, guaranties, heartburns, housetrain, incurvates, infuriates, juniorates, keratinous, lacustrine, menstruate, miniatures, naturalise, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, nucleators, numerators, nutgrasses, outlanders, quadrantes, quantizers, raconteurs, raunchiest, reductants, resaluting, restaurant, resultants, resupinate, saunterers, sauntering, scattergun, signatures, subalterns, subcentral, subtrahend, sunbathers, superagent, supergiant, supplanter, sustainers, suzerainty, transduced, transducer, transduces, transfused, transfuses, transmuted, transmutes, transudate, transvalue, treasonous, treasuring, tribunates, truantries, turbinates, turntables, ultradense, unclearest, undercoats, underpants, underparts, underrates, understand, understate, undertakes, undertaxes, unreadiest, unsaturate, unsteadier, unstrained, unstrapped, unwreathes, uraninites, urbanities, utterances, wanderlust.
	+4 letters: accruements, adulterants, adventurers, adventuress, adventurism, adventurist, adventurous, aeronautics, allurements, antinatures, antiquaries, antiseizure, antitruster, aquatinters, attenuators, auctioneers, austereness, aventurines, bladdernuts, construable, cotransduce, counteracts, countryseat, crustaceans, curtainless, denaturants, disturbance, draughtsmen, enumerators, enunciators, equestrians, eructations, euphoriants, extenuators, exurbanites, fluorinates, gangbusters, headhunters, houseparent, housetrains, inaugurates, innumerates, inscrutable, intercampus, intersexual, interurbans, intravenous, juggernauts, laundrettes, laureations, measurement, menstruated, menstruates, mensuration, natriureses, natriuresis, naturalised, naturalises, naturalizes, naturalness, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralizes, neutralness, numerations, nunciatures, nurturances, nutcrackers, outgenerals, outswearing, outwardness, parturients, pastureland, pentamerous, precautions, procrustean, purtenances, quantifiers, quarantines, quarterings, quartersawn, quaternions, questionary, reacquaints, readjusting, rearguments, refutations, regulations, rejuvenates, reluctances, remunerates, renunciates, reputations, restaurants, resultantly, returnables, roundtables, sanctuaries, sauerbraten, scatterguns, seminatural, septenarius, squattering, sternutator, strangulate, stranguries, subinterval, subordinate, subterminal, subtrahends, suburbanite, superagents, superaltern, supergiants, superjacent, supernatant, supernation, supernature, supertanker, supplanters, suppressant, surveillant, tambourines, tearfulness, tourmalines, tournaments, tranquilest, transducers, transfigure, translucent, transsexual, transudates, transvalued, transvalues, ulcerations, unabsorbent, unaspirated, unassertive, uncastrated, unclarities, underreacts, understands, understated, understates, undertakers, unharvested, unobservant, unrealistic, unrealities, unresistant, unrestraint, unsaturated, unsaturates, unseaworthy, unseparated, untarnished, untraversed, voluntaries, wanderlusts.
	+5 letters: abruptnesses, abstruseness, accurateness, acquirements, acupunctures, adjournments, adventurisms, adventurists, afterburners, amentiferous, angularities, anticonsumer, antineutrons, antipleasure, antitrusters, appurtenants, artfulnesses, bankruptcies, barquentines, beardtongues, candidatures, cantankerous, carburetions, centrifugals, circumstance, commensurate, contractures, cotransduced, cotransduces, counterblast, countermands, counterpanes, counterparts, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, counterraids, counterstain, counterstate, countervails, countryseats, crenulations, curtailments, deuteranopes, deuterations, disturbances, dreadnoughts, drumbeatings, elutriations, encrustation, entablatures, enumerations, equilibrants, euchromatins, expurgations, extraneously, faultfinders, frankfurters, furtherances, granulocytes, gratefulness, groundwaters, hantaviruses, heteroauxins, hindquarters, housepainter, houseparents, housetrained, incurvatures, ingratitudes, ingurgitates, instrumental, insularities, launderettes, manslaughter, manufactures, measurements, menstruating, menstruation, mensurations, mercurations, miniaturizes, misadventure, mountaineers, natriuretics, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neuropathies, neuropterans, neurulations, neutralising, neutralistic, neutralities, neutralizers, nonarguments, nongraduates, obdurateness, outmaneuvers, outorganizes, outspreading, overcautions, paintbrushes, pasteurising, pasteurizing, pasturelands, percutaneous, permutations, pertinacious, planetariums, portmanteaus, premenstrual, proconsulate, proteinurias, quaternaries, quaternities, readjustment, reassumption, reeducations, reinoculates, rejuvenators, reluctancies, reluctations, remunerators, repudiations, revaluations, rubefacients, salutariness, sauerbratens, slaughtering, southeastern, sternutation, sternutators, strangulated, strangulates, subcentrally, suberization, subintervals, subminiature, subordinated, subordinates, subterranean, suburbanites, superalterns, superannuate, supercabinet, superheating, supernatants, supernations, supernatural, supernatures, superstation, supertankers, suppressants, surmountable, surveillants, suzerainties, thunderclaps, thunderheads, titaniferous, traducements, tranquilizes, tranquillest, tranquilness, transfigured, transfigures, transfusable, transfusible, transhumance, translucence, translucency, transmutable, transsexuals, transvaluate, triangulates, ultramarines, unadvertised, understaffed, understating, undertakings, undertenants, undistracted, unfortunates, unhysterical, universalist, universality, unmoralities, unrestrained, unrestraints, unsegregated, unstratified, untowardness, untranslated, wrathfulness.
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