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walk-down
[ wawk-doun ]
noun
- a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps:
It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
adjective
- (of a store, restaurant, apartment, etc.) located below the level of the sidewalk:
a popular walk-down nightclub in Greenwich Village.
Word History and Origins
Origin of walk-down1
Example Sentences
Liar "I sometimes wish I could be anonymous and just walk down the street like everybody else."
As you walk down Shuhada Street, you see one shuttered storefront after another; hundreds of them.
Princess Ariel and Prince Eric walk down the aisle, and are greeted by a stout clergyman who is allegedly too happy to see them.
Adam Senatori remembers that long, cold walk down the gangplank.
“Did you want to know about rats,” he asked, finally, as we walk down the hill to drink tea in his living room.
Happening to walk down the Rue Saint Honoré, he had come upon tragedy.
Madame Ratignolle had not far to go, and Edna stood on the porch a while watching her walk down the street.
It was but a drop of salt water to Miss Read, and she wiped it off, as she asked her guest "to walk down to tea."
It occurs to me you might take a walk down the Canongate and see in what condition the stone is.
No, though I have got patent self-controlling cork legs, I can walk down by myself.
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