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noun

Pedestrian n. A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

adjective

Pedestrian adj.

Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.

Lacking in distinction or imaginativeness; ordinary; commonplace; dull; insipid; prosaic; as, pedestrian prose.

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Etymology of 'Pedestrian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pedestrian" Quotes from Famous Books

... toil pulses with sleepless energy. Every one seems to feel that this great Capital of the world, is the fittest place wherein they might offer homage to the dignity of toil. I had already begun to feel fatigued by my pedestrian excursion as I passed "Apsley House," the residence of the Duke of Wellington, and emerged into ...

— Three Years in Europe - Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met • William Wells Brown

... childish years, he had ceased to care about it. On the other journey his experience was different, but equally testified to the spirit of kindness that is every where abroad. He had no money, on this occasion, that could purchase even a momentary lift by a stage coach: as a pedestrian, he had travelled down to Oxford, occupying two days in the fifty-four or fifty-six miles which then measured the road from London, and sleeping in a farmer's barn, without leave asked. Wearied and depressed ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited. I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: I was fond of exercise, and Clerval had always been my favourite companion in the ramble of this nature that I had taken among the scenes ...

— Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

... of preceding repasts which might render the place obviously one of carnage. He chooses a stone, beneath which he hollows a cylindro-conical hole with extremely smooth walls. This hole is not to serve as a trap, that is to say that the proprietor has no intention of causing any pedestrian to roll to the bottom. It is simply a place of concealment in which he awaits the propitious moment. No creature is more patient than this insect, and no delay discourages him. As soon as some small animal approaches his hiding-place he throws himself on it impetuously, ...

— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay

... and gave her friend a surreptitious little hug, which might have cost a crossing pedestrian his life if he hadn't ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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