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. Usually Walker. Informal. 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 Breed·love [breed, -luhv], 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 calledbaby 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. WalkerAlice (Malsenior)1944FUSWRITING: writer 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. WalkerSirJohn1952MNew ZealandSPORT AND GAMES: runner 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

Olson sued on behalf of two gay couples, and Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that it was unconstitutional discrimination to deny them the right to marry.

From Los Angeles Times

"He was eating a packet of Walkers cheese and onion crisps and he wasn't blinking," she said.

From BBC

Walker would offer bosses a clean cut image and a safe pair of hands were he to take the role, having previously also covered Olympics and football World Cups for the BBC.

From BBC

Amelia Walker, representing the man’s family in court, said the restraints imposed on him were "inevitably humiliating and degrading, as well as dangerous".

From BBC

Remarkably, long before Patterson elaborated on this theory, African Americans such as David Walker, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs all reflected on the condition of social death in their own 19th-century language.

From Salon

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