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# saunter

«saunter» in Mova's school dictionary: **to walk slowly and calmly, without hurrying, often with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (saunter, saunters, sauntered, sauntering); noun (a saunter)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To saunter is to walk slowly and calmly, without hurrying, often with no set place to go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saunter/#m1)

2) A saunter is a slow, relaxed walk: a saunter round the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saunter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character who saunters is relaxed, lazy or proud, walking up and down without any hurry

### examples

- He saunters up and down his room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saunter/#x1)
- They sauntered home in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saunter/#x2)
- He sauntered to the shop, whistling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saunter/#x3)
- Let's go for a saunter along the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saunter/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «saunter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saunter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.