different between stroll vs troponym

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /st?o?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

stroll (plural strolls)

1. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

Translations

Verb

stroll (third-person singular simple present strolls, present participle strolling, simple past and past participle strolled)

1. To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
2. To go somewhere with ease.
3. (intransitive, slang) To walk the streets as a prostitute.
   • 1998, Joseph Ferone, Boomboom, page 24:

     "Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. / "Don't even ask. You don't want to know."

4. (intransitive) to do, obtain, or achieve something in a casual effortless way

   My daughter strolled through the exam.

Synonyms

• rove
• ramble

Translations

Synonyms

• range, roam, rove, stray

See also

• stroller

Anagrams

• trolls

English

Etymology

tropo- +? -onym

Noun

troponym (plural troponyms)

1. (grammar) A verb that indicates more precisely the manner of doing something by replacing a verb of a more generalized meaning.

Derived terms

• troponymy

Translations

See also

• hyponym
• -onym
• toponym

Anagrams

• protonym