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walkable

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Etymology

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From walk +‎ -able.

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Adjective

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walkable (comparative more walkable, superlative most walkable)

  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.
    • 2015 July 23, Evan Rail, “A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales”, in The New York Times[1]:
      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.
  2. Short enough or close enough to be accessible by walking.
    Is the train station walkable from here?
    • 2005, Johnny Rich, The PUSH Guide to which University, page 172:
      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 []
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