noun
Meaning 1
A clearly defined path for pedestrians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
walkway
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
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UK: /ˈwɔːkˌweɪ/
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General-American: /ˈwɔkˌweɪ/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈwɑkˌweɪ/
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noun
Meaning 2
a path set aside for walking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: walk, paseo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: path
Narrower terms: ambulatory, boardwalk, catwalk, flagging, promenade, mall, sidewalk, pavement, skywalk
History
Etymology
From walk + way.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: пешеходна пътека (pešehodna pǎteka) — clearly defined path
- Cherokee: ᎡᏓᏍᏗ (edasdi) — clearly defined path
- Chinese Mandarin: 走道 (zǒudào) — clearly defined path
- Chinese Mandarin: 步道 (bùdào) — clearly defined path
- Dutch: voetpad — clearly defined path
- Esperanto: irvojo — clearly defined path
- Esperanto: piedvojo — clearly defined path
- Finnish: kävelytie — clearly defined path
- Finnish: jalkakäytävä — clearly defined path
- Galician: paseo — clearly defined path
- Galician: paso — clearly defined path
- Georgian: სავალი ზოლი (savali zoli) — clearly defined path
- Georgian: საფეხმავლო ბილიკი (sapexmavlo biliḳi) — clearly defined path
- Georgian: ქვეითად სასიარულო გზა (kveitad sasiarulo gza) — clearly defined path
- Georgian: საქვეითო ბილიკი (sakveito biliḳi) — clearly defined path
- Georgian: საქვეითო გზა (sakveito gza) — clearly defined path
- Georgian: ფეხით სასიარულო ბილიკი (pexit sasiarulo biliḳi) — clearly defined path
- German: Fußweg — clearly defined path
- Greek: διάδρομος (diádromos) — clearly defined path
- Greek: δίοδος (díodos) — clearly defined path
- Hungarian: gyalogút — clearly defined path
- Hungarian: átjáró — clearly defined path
- Hungarian: folyosó — clearly defined path
- Hungarian: függőfolyosó — clearly defined path
- Hungarian: gang — clearly defined path
- Irish: siúlán — clearly defined path
- Irish: siúlbhealach — clearly defined path
- Italian: passerella — clearly defined path
- Japanese: 歩道 (hodō) — clearly defined path
- Malayalam: നടപ്പാത (naṭappāta) — clearly defined path
- Polish: chodnik — clearly defined path
- Polish: pasaż — clearly defined path
- Serbo-Croatian: nogostup — clearly defined path
- Spanish: pasarela — clearly defined path
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