walkway

[ wawk-wey ]
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noun
  1. any passage for walking, especially one connecting the various areas of a ship, factory, park, etc.

  2. a garden path or walk.

  1. the front walk of a house, leading from the door to the sidewalk or road.

Origin of walkway

1
An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; walk + way1

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How to use walkway in a sentence

  • Between the vats ran straight, narrow walkways of packed earth.

    Rebels of the Red Planet | Charles Louis Fontenay
  • There were walkways and some temporary buildings obviously thrown hastily together to house a sudden influx of people.

    The Hate Disease | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • He walked on along the steel walkways, trying to clear his mind of the doubts and questions that were plaguing him.

    Gold in the Sky | Alan Edward Nourse
  • Happy waddled along one of the walkways until he found an empty vat.

    Rebels of the Red Planet | Charles Louis Fontenay
  • Happy moved along the walkways, peering into the vats which appeared to be empty.

    Rebels of the Red Planet | Charles Louis Fontenay

British Dictionary definitions for walkway

walkway

/ (ˈwɔːkˌweɪ) /


noun
  1. a path designed, and sometimes landscaped, for pedestrian use

  2. a passage or path connecting buildings

  1. a passage or path, esp one for walking over machinery, etc

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