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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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intj
Expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, slang
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name
A northern English surname originating as an occupation from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A settlement in Yavapai County, Arizona.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A census-designated place in Mono County, California.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Macon County, Illinois.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A minor city in Linn County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ellis County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A city in Kent County, Michigan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A minor city, the county seat of Cass County, Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A minor city in Vernon County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cranmoor, Wood County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A location in the United States:
A number of townships, in Arkansas (3), Illinois, Indiana (2), Kansas, Michigan, Missouri (3), Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania (4).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2864).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A neighbourhood in south-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
One who walks (takes for a walk).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
A walking frame or baby walker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: rollator, Zimmer frame
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: walking frame, baby walker, Zimmer frame
noun
A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, often
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noun
A zombie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing
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noun
A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A gressorial bird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A forester.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A prostitute, streetwalker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines
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noun
Alternative form of waulker.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A Walking Liberty half dollar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: numismatic slang
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noun
an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: baby-walker, go-cart
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: framework
noun
a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Zimmer, Zimmer frame
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: framework
noun
a shoe designed for comfortable walking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shoe
noun
a person who travels by foot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: pedestrian, footer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: traveler, traveller
Narrower terms: hiker, tramp, tramper, hobbler, limper, jaywalker, marcher, parader, nondriver, passerby, passer-by, passer, peripatetic, rambler, saunterer, stroller, ambler, shuffler, staggerer, totterer, reeler, stalker, stamper, stomper, trampler, strider, stumbler, tripper, swaggerer, trudger, plodder, slogger, waddler, wayfarer
noun
United States writer (born in 1944)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Alice Walker, Alice Malsenior Walker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer, author
noun
New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: John Walker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: four-minute man
History
From Hookey Walker.
From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.
Etymology tree English Walk(ing Liberty) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English Walker From Walk(ing Liberty) + -er.
Across languages
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
