walker

¹

[waw-ker]

noun

1. an enclosing framework on casters or wheels for supporting a baby who is learning to walk.

2. a similar mobility aid, usually a waist-high four-legged framework of lightweight metal, for support or balance while walking.

3. Informal.,  Usually Walker Walker hound.

4. a person or thing that walks or likes to walk.

   He's a great walker.

5. Theater Slang.,  an extra or supernumerary.

6. Slang.,  a musician required by a union contract to be hired and paid full salary even when not needed for performance.

Walker

²

[waw-ker]

noun

1. Alice, born 1944, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

2. David, 1785–1830, U.S. abolitionist.

3. James John Jimmy, 1881–1946, U.S. politician: mayor of New York City 1926–32.

4. John, born 1952, New Zealand track-and-field athlete.

5. Sarah Breedlove 1867–1919, U.S. businesswoman and philanthropist.

6. a city in W Michigan.

7. a male given name.

walker

¹

/ ˈwɔːkə /

noun

1. a person who walks

2. Also called: baby walker. a tubular frame on wheels or castors to support a baby learning to walk

3. a similar support for walking, often with rubber feet, for use by disabled or infirm people

4. a woman's escort at a social event

   let me introduce my walker for tonight

Walker

²

/ ˈwɔːkə /

noun

1. Alice ( Malsenior ). born 1944, US writer: her works include In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) and the novels Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982), and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

2. Sir John. born 1952, New Zealand middle-distance runner, the first athlete to run one hundred sub-four-minute miles

Word History and Origins

Origin of walker¹

First recorded in 1325–75; walk, -er ¹

Example Sentences

When the knifeman spotted a dog walker he "straight away attacked him ... so many times", she added.

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Conrad went to the bedroom to grab his father’s walker.

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"I thought some walker was just waving to me but as I got near him I realised this man's distressed so I stopped and I said 'Are you Ian Currie?',"

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But as the garden has grown, its eldest and most mature plants have started shielding its youngest, and walkers have been more careful about where they step.

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Police and mountain rescue teams are searching for a German walker missing on the Isle of Skye.

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