EGAVE

walkabout

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society.
  2. noun A walking trip.
  3. noun A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.
  4. noun An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.

Similar words

wilderness desert wasteland trek bushwalk bushwalking bushranging tramping overlander outbackery

Often followed by

in and with is to on was magazine through

Word family

on walkabout walkabouts

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