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View synonyms for walkway

walkway

[ wawk-wey ]

noun

  1. any passage for walking, walking, especially one connecting the various areas of a ship, factory, park, etc.
  2. a garden path or walk.
  3. the front walk of a house, leading from the door to the sidewalk or road.


walkway

/ ˈwɔːkˌweɪ /

noun

  1. a path designed, and sometimes landscaped, for pedestrian use
  2. a passage or path connecting buildings
  3. a passage or path, esp one for walking over machinery, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of walkway1

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

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Example Sentences

By Thursday morning, nine of the 13 closed Metro stations were open, and the National Park Service had reopened the Lincoln Memorial and walkways along the Reflecting Pool.

In addition to the requisite waterslides, the park has plank walkways from which visitors can see the water’s colorful mineral deposits.

On the other side of the walkway was a three-tier conveyor belt system.

It’s like the whole floor is a crack, and there’s a tiny little walkway you have to cross to get care.

That means bagging your leaves, shoveling snow off your walkway or hiring someone to do it for you.

But he loses his backpack in the process and it stays with the cops as he flees down the walkway toward Brooklyn.

A number of bottles and other debris came down upon the demonstrators and cops on the roadway from the pedestrian walkway above.

He had reassembled the weapon in a bathroom and stepped out onto a fourth-floor walkway overlooking an atrium.

Its familiar spires reach into the sky, the arched walkway hovering high above.

When they stood upon the walkway and had started toward home, her father paused.

As they went up the walkway, the large front doors parted, and a handsome elderly woman came forth.

He had her arm—held it close, as they passed through the station and crossed the walkway to where an inclosed auto stood.

They had just crossed the broad plaza at Fifty-ninth Street and entered the walkway that leads to the Mall.

He rammed it under a drum of gasoline and ran it to the walkway nearest to the floating plane.

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