vicambulist

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noun

Someone who walks or wanders streets.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounvicambulist (plural vicambulists)

plural vicambulists

  1. rareSomeone who walks or wanders streets.

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

    1821, “The King of Clubs”, in The Etonian, volume I, number I, →OCLC, page 5
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    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.

    2011, T. Byram Karasu, Gotham Chronicles: The Culture of Sociopathy, Lanham, M.D. […]: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 134

    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.'

    2017, Peter van Buren, Hooper's War, Sedona, A.Z.: Luminis Books, →ISBN, page 28

Origin

  1. Latinvīcus“street”
  2. Englishvicambulist

From Latin vīcus (“street”) + -ambulist (“walker”). Later popularized by its inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary and thence various "rare word" lists.

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APA

vicambulist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vicambulist

MLA

“vicambulist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vicambulist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vicambulist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vicambulist.

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