name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2:W AO1 K M AH0 N
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
name
Meaning 1
A Sony portable personal compact cassette player product line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 2
A Sony brand for personal portable audio media players.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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3
name
Meaning 3
A street urchin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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4
noun
Meaning 4
A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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5
noun
Meaning 5
Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, informal, uncountable
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6
noun
Meaning 6
Alternative letter-case form of walkman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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7
noun
Meaning 7
(trademark) a pocket-sized stereo system with light weight earphones
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stereo, stereophony, stereo system, stereophonic system
History
Etymology
A trademark; from walk + man, coined in reference to an earlier product, Pressman, a portable tape recorder for journalists.
(cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Chinese Mandarin:
隨身聽 /随身听
(suíshēntīng)
— personal cassette player
Danish:
walkman
— personal cassette player
Dutch:
walkman
— personal cassette player
Esperanto:
poŝkasedilo
— personal cassette player
Finnish:
korvalappustereot
— personal cassette player
French:
walkman
— personal cassette player
French:
baladeur
— personal cassette player
German:
Walkman
— personal cassette player
Greek:
γουόκμαν
(gouókman)
— personal cassette player
Hungarian:
walkman
— personal cassette player
Hungarian:
sétálómagnó
— personal cassette player
Icelandic:
vasadiskó
— personal cassette player
Japanese:
ウォークマン
(wōkuman)
— personal cassette player
Korean:
워크맨
(wokeumaen)
— personal cassette player
Malay:
walkman
— personal cassette player
Polish:
walkman
— personal cassette player
Portuguese:
walkman
— personal cassette player
Russian:
пле́ер
(pléjer)
— personal cassette player