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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person traveling on foot; a walker.
  2. adj. Of, relating to, or made for pedestrians: a pedestrian bridge.
  3. adj. Going or performed on foot: a pedestrian journey.
  4. adj. Undistinguished; ordinary: pedestrian prose. See Synonyms at dull.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Going on foot; walking: as, a pedestrian excursionist; also, performed on foot: as, a pedestrian journey. Hence—2. Low; vulgar; common.
  2. n. One who walks or journeys on foot. Specifically—2. One who walks or races on foot for a wager; a professional walker; one who has made a notable record for speed or endurance in walking.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. not comparable Of or intended for those who are walking.
  2. adj. comparable Ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional.
  3. n. Somebody walking rather than using a vehicle; somebody traveling on foot.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Going on foot; performed on foot.
  2. adj. Lacking in distinction or imaginativeness; ordinary; commonplace; dull; insipid; prosaic.
  3. n. A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking wit or imagination
  2. n. a person who travels by foot

Etymologies

  1. From Latin pedestri-, from pedester. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin pedester, pedestr-, going on foot, from pedes, a pedestrian, from pēs, ped-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Pedestrian power. Dec 14, 2007

  • bgreenlee "You're making Nestle Toll House cookies? How pedestrian." -- me, to my wife, after which I did not get any cookies. Sep 14, 2007

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