Dictionary

walkable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• [ˈwɔːkəbɫ̩]
• /ˈwɔːkəbəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree English walk Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English walkable From walk + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians.
   • This route is no longer walkable since the bush and the vines grew over it.
   • Cities were generally much more walkable before the mid-20th century.
   • What I found turned out to be one of the best beer-drinking destinations I’d visited in Europe, a friendly and undertouristed city of about 750,000 inhabitants — large enough to be interesting, though still walkable. 2015 July 23, Evan Rail, “A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales”, in The New York Times:
2. Short enough or close enough to be accessible by walking.
   • Is the train station walkable from here?
   • Just outside the city centre, briskly walkable and even more briskly busable from the main City site, Charlie Frears has his own medical library and teaching facilities[…] 2005, Johnny Rich, The PUSH Guide to which University, page 172:

Forms

Deriveds

unwalkable · walkably

Relateds

walkability

Translations (9)

ro bun de mers pe jos (able to be walked) · es transitable (able to be walked) · ro pietonal (able to be walked) · fr marchable (able to be walked) · es caminable (able to be walked) · pt andável (able to be walked) · sv på/inom gångavstånd (close enough) · sv promenadvänlig (able to be walked) · ml നടക്കാവുന്ന (able to be walked)