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walkman

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.
  • CMU ARPABET: W AO1 K M AE2 N 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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2

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
  • Swedish: freestyle — personal cassette player
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