walk

CEFRA1

/wɔːk/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To move by putting one foot in front of the other.

  2. 02

    noun

    A journey made by walking.

Examples

  • I can walk to school in 10 minutes.

  • I'm taking a walk in a park.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /waːk/
  • /woːk/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.

  2. To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.

  3. To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.

More examples

In context

  • The baby is just learning to walk.

  • If you can’t present a better case, that robber is going to walk.

  • If you leave your wallet lying around, it’s going to walk.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English walk, walke, walken, walkyn, wolken (“to roll, toss, or turn; to walk; to move; to be living; to beat or full; to perform”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse; to roll”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”), *walkōną (“to roll about; to full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognates Cognate with Bavarian woikn (“to full, tan; to knead dough; to roll out dough”), Cimbrian balchan (“t...