walker

See also: Walker

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English walkere (“one who walks, traveller”), equivalent to walk +‎ -er.

Noun

walker (plural walkers)

1. 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.

2. A walking frame.

   Synonyms: walking frame, Zimmer frame

3. (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. 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.

5. 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)
6. A gressorial bird.
7. (law) A forester.

Derived terms

Terms derived from walker

• baby walker

• highwire walker
• planeswalker

• skinwalker
• tightrope walker

Synonyms

• walking frame
• rollator
• (British) Zimmer frame, zimmer frame

Translations

person who walks

• Arabic: مَاشٍ m (māšin)
• Czech: chodec (cs) m
• Dutch: wandelaar (nl)
• Estonian: kõndija
• Finnish: kävelijä (fi)
• French: marcheur (fr) m
• Georgian: მავალი (mavali), მოსიარულე (mosiarule)
• Greek: πεζοπόρος (el) m or f (pezopóros), περιπατητής (el) m (peripatitís)
• Indonesian: pejalan (id), pejalan kaki (id)
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• Irish: válcaeir m
• Malay: pejalan
• Norman: marcheux m (Jersey)
• Portuguese: andarilho
• Russian: ходо́к (ru) m (xodók), пешехо́д (ru) m (pešexód) (pedestrian)
• Scottish Gaelic: coisiche m
• Sinhalese: sprehajalec, sprehajalka
• Spanish: caminante (es) m
• Swedish: gående (sv) c, fotgängare (sv) c, vandrare (sv) c, gångare (sv) c (especially in walking races)

walking frame

• French: déambulateur (fr) m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rullator m

• Spanish: andador (es) m, andadera f
• Swedish: rollator (sv) c

shoe designed for comfortable walking

• Finnish: kävelykenkä
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• Swedish: gångsko c

Etymology 2

From Middle English walkere, from Old English wealcere (“one who fulls cloth”), equivalent to walk (“to full”) +‎ -er.

Noun

walker (plural walkers)

1. (now rare) Synonym of fuller.

Derived terms

• walker's earth

Further reading

• walker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• walker (mobility) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rewalk

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Cebuano

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English walker, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English walkere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English wealcere.

Noun

walker

1. (slang) a prostitute

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Manx

Etymology

walk (“waulk, full, tuck”) +‎ -er

Noun

walker m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. tucker

Synonyms

• walkeyder