Stroll
verbTo walk in a slow, relaxed, and unhurried way for pleasure.
How to spell stroll
6 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce stroll
What does stroll mean?
- verbTo walk in a slow, relaxed, and unhurried way for pleasure.
- nounA short, leisurely walk taken for pleasure or relaxation.
Stroll in a sentence
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verb
After dinner they liked to stroll along the seafront.
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noun
She took a quiet stroll around the garden before bed.
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verb
On Sunday mornings he would stroll through the park with the dog.
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noun
A gentle stroll through the market filled the whole afternoon.
Where does stroll come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
Stroll is a relative newcomer to English, appearing only in the mid-1600s, and its trail is a little murky. It seems to come from a regional German verb, strollen or strolen, meaning to wander, roam, or vagabond about, used especially in southern German and Swiss-German speech. Many scholars push the story further back to the Italian strolare, a clipped form of astrologare, which described the wandering fortune-tellers and itinerant astrologers who drifted from town to town. If that link holds, the gentle modern sense of an unhurried walk grew out of the rather less respectable image of a roving stranger with no fixed business. The word kept its single, simple spelling, so the only real trap is the silent doubling at the end, the -ll, which mirrors words like roll and toll.
How the word is built
- stroll (single root; from a 17th-century German dialect verb meaning to wander or roam)
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