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WALKER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk

Synonyms:

baby-walker; go-cart; walker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("walker" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Derivation:

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk

Synonyms:

walker; Zimmer; Zimmer frame

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("walker" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Derivation:

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A shoe designed for comfortable walking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("walker" is a kind of...):

shoe (footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material)

Derivation:

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A person who travels by foot

Synonyms:

footer; pedestrian; walker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("walker" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "walker"):

wayfarer (a pedestrian who walks from place to place)

waddler (someone who walks with a waddling gait)

plodder; slogger; trudger (someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner)

swaggerer (someone who walks in an arrogant manner)

stumbler; tripper (a walker or runner who trips and almost falls)

strider (a person who walks rapidly with long steps)

stamper; stomper; tramper; trampler (someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground)

stalker (someone who walks with long stiff strides)

reeler; staggerer; totterer (someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall)

shuffler (someone who walks without raising the feet)

ambler; saunterer; stroller (someone who walks at a leisurely pace)

rambler (a person who takes long walks in the country)

peripatetic (a person who walks from place to place)

passer; passer-by; passerby (a person who passes by casually or by chance)

nondriver (a person who is not a driver)

marcher; parader (walks with regular or stately step)

jaywalker (a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally)

hobbler; limper (someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait)

hiker; tramp; tramper (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))

Derivation:

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States writer (born in 1944)

Synonyms:

Alice Malsenior Walker; Alice Walker; Walker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 6

Meaning:

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)

Synonyms:

John Walker; Walker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

four-minute man (someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes)

Credits

 Context examples: 

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.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Also called: Dandy-Walker Syndrome

(Brain Malformations, NIH)

We are like sleep-walkers, and we walk in dreams until we fall down; and then we know we must get up, and we see the trail once more and bear the beating of our hearts.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I never heard any harm of her; indeed I hardly ever heard her mentioned; except that Mrs. Taylor did say this morning, that one day Miss Walker hinted to her, that she believed Mr. and Mrs. Ellison would not be sorry to have Miss Grey married, for she and Mrs. Ellison could never agree.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He was nowhere to be met with; every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable; nor among the walkers, the horsemen, or the curricle-drivers of the morning.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They include: • Crutches • Canes • Walkers • Wheelchairs • Motorized scooters

(Mobility Aids, NIH)

Here is my aunt, in stronger spectacles, an old woman of four-score years and more, but upright yet, and a steady walker of six miles at a stretch in winter weather.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There’s Walker, of the Rose cutter, who, with thirteen men, engaged three French privateers with crews of a hundred and forty-six.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a very fine November day, and the Miss Musgroves came through the little grounds, and stopped for no other purpose than to say, that they were going to take a long walk, and therefore concluded Mary could not like to go with them; and when Mary immediately replied, with some jealousy at not being supposed a good walker, Oh, yes, I should like to join you very much, I am very fond of a long walk;

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)