WALKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Walker mean? 

• WALKER (noun)
  The noun WALKER has 6 senses:

1. 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)

2. United States writer (born in 1944)

3. a person who travels by foot

4. a shoe designed for comfortable walking

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

6. an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk

  Familiarity information: WALKER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALKER (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Walker; Walker

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer (born in 1944)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alice Malsenior Walker; Alice Walker; Walker

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person who travels by foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

footer; pedestrian; walker

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

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

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

shuffler (someone who walks without raising the feet)

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)

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

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)

Derivation:

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

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

Sense 4

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 5

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

walker; Zimmer; Zimmer frame

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

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Derivation:

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baby-walker; go-cart; walker

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

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Derivation:

walk (traverse or cover by walking)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Hurst thought the same, and added: She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Aids or devices that you usually use for any of these activities - Walker.

(HAQ-DI - Aids or Devices - Walker, NCI Thesaurus)

You may need a walker or cane if you are at risk of falling.

(Mobility Aids, NIH)

It was a sleep-walker Maud guided and supported.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Who was there in all the Down country who had not heard of the Walker of Cliffe Royal?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment Alleyne stood in the window, still staring down at the silent forest, uncertain as to what he should think of these midnight walkers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It was Walker, my sweet pet,” replied Miss Mowcher, “and he came of a long line of Walkers, that I inherit all the Hookey estates from.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Everybody is always supposing that I am not a good walker; and yet they would not have been pleased, if we had refused to join them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Examples are a cane, wheelchair, scooter, walker, hearing aid, or special bed.

(Assistive device, NCI Dictionary)

"Nearly every disease killing us in later life has a causal link to lack of sleep," said the article's senior author, Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience.

(Deep Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)