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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɔːkə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɔkɚ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈwɑkɚ/
- Homophone: waulker
- Hyphenation: walk‧er
- Rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk + -er.
Noun
[edit]walker (plural walkers)
- 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.
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 118:
- I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.
- 2005, Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend, page 88:
- We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Hyponyms: walking frame, baby walker, Zimmer frame
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (fiction) A zombie.
- 1980, Gary Brandner, chapter 17, in Walkers (fiction; paperback), Fawcett Publications, →ISBN:
- Dead people, walkers, as you call them, are somehow, and for some reason, attacking.
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- 1980 December 29, New York, volume 14, number 1, page 26:
- He's really just a 'walker' for old ladies!" Walkers, now, are a special breed of pilot fish — entertaining male escorts.
- 1981, Spare rib: Volumes 108-119:
- Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.
- 1984, Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton:
- In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker" — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening […]
- 2007, The Walker (film about a male escort)
- A gressorial bird.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- 2011, Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia: Star Wars Legends, page 144:
- Two of the walkers circled the pillars. Their searchlights played through the trees, then turned back to Leia and the others.
- 2019, Joe Meno, BrickJournal #60, page 37:
- It also takes a good amount of inspiration from Metal Gear Solid 4's biomechanical designs, namely the Gekko walkers and their synthetic musculature.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- 2019 June 22, Charisse Ursal, “Social media lures young people to engage in sex for money”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer[1]:
- A single mother of three, Rachel is what Facebook users call as [sic] “walker,” or an online sex worker. Using a dummy account, she posts her sexy photos and informs page visitors that she’s available for sex in exchange for money.
Usage notes
[edit]The meaning 'zombie' is used especially in reference to The Walking Dead; in that series, the term 'walker' is usually used, rather than 'zombie'.
Synonyms
[edit]- walking frame
- rollator
- (British) Zimmer frame, zimmer frame
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]person who walks
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walking frame
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shoe designed for comfortable walking
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Etymology 2
[edit]
Noun
[edit]walker (plural walkers)
- Alternative form of waulker
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]walker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
walker (mobility) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English walker, from Middle English walkere, from Old English wealcere.
Noun
[edit]walker
- (slang) a prostitute
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From walk (“waulk, full, tuck”) + -er.
Noun
[edit]walker m (genitive singular walker, plural walkeryn)
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]walker
- Alternative form of walkere (“traveller”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]walker
- Alternative form of walkere (“fuller”)
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