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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief travel on foot |
| Synonyms: | airing, carriage, circuit, constitutional, gait, hike, jaunt, march, pace, parade, perambulation, peregrination, promenade, ramble, saunter, schlepp, step, stretch, stride, stroll, tour, traipse, tramp, tread, turn |
| Main Entry: | walk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discipline |
| Synonyms: | area, arena, bailiwick, calling, career, course, domain, dominion, field, line, metier, profession, province, sphere, terrain, territory, trade, vocation |
| Main Entry: | walk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move along on foot |
| Synonyms: | advance, amble, ambulate, canter, escort, exercise, file, foot, go, go on foot, hike, hit the road, hoof it, knock about, lead, leg*, locomote, lumber, march, meander, pace, pad, parade, patrol, perambulate, plod, prance, promenade, race, roam, rove, run, saunter, scuff, shamble, shuffle, slog, stalk, step, stride, stroll, strut, stump, take a walk, toddle, tour, traipse, tramp, travel on foot, traverse, tread, trek, troop, trudge, wander, wend one's way |
| Antonyms: | run |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aisle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passageway dividing something |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, avenue, clearing, corridor, course, egress, gangway, hallway, ingress, lane, opening, passage, path, walk, way |
| Notes: | the bride actually walks up the nave (from Latin navis 'ship') of a church, not one of the aisles (one of the two parts parallel to the nave) |
| Main Entry: | alley |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | narrow passage |
| Synonyms: | alleyway, back street, lane, passageway, path, pathway, walk |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | circuit, course, march, path, patrol, precinct, rounds, route, walk, way |
| Main Entry: | career |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course, path |
| Synonyms: | course, orbit, passage, pilgrimage, procedure, progress, race, walk |
| Notes: | careen has a nautical origin and is a side-to-side trajectory while career is a headlong high-speed trajectory |
| Main Entry: | constitutional |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | walk |
| Synonyms: | airing, ambulation, footwork, legwork, perambulation, ramble, saunter, stroll, turn, walk |
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, defect |
| Synonyms: | abscond, apostatize, bail out, beach, betray, bolt, check out*, chuck, cop out, crawl out, decamp, depart, duck*, escape, flee, fly, forsake, give up, go, go AWOL, go back on, go over the hill, go west, jilt, leave, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave stranded, light, maroon, opt out, play truant, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, run out on, sneak off, split*, strand, take a hike, take off, tergiversate, throw over, vacate, violate oath, walk |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, come back, help, stay, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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