walk – English noun declension

English noun forms of walk

Noun: walk
Singularwalk
Pluralwalks

Sample Sentences

  • I take a walk every morning.
  • go on a walk
  • FOUR BAPTISMS IN YING-SHAN
  • We had looked forward to four or five days' work in Ying-shan similar to that in Yün-mung,but at the end of our two days' walk from the one city to the other (they lie more than fifty miles apart), Mr. Terrell had a touch of fever, so we judged it best to remain in Ying-shan only for a day and then travel as quickly as possible by chair to Teh-ngan to consult our good friend, Dr. Morley, of the Wesleyan Mission Hospital in that city, and from thence take boat for Hankow. [1894, “From Month to Month”, in The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, number 33, Readers Union, →OCLC, page 220:]
  • It’s a long walk from my house to the library.
  • The precinct is about ten minutes’ walk, straight ahead, so you can’t miss it.
  • The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year.
  • And then it appeared to the young man that he was walking his love up the grass walk of Heriotside, with the house close by him. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
  • people of different ages and walks
  • Men like Stuart who had no desire to extol Coleridge's virtues, and other witnesses quite as hostile, to whom a moral dereliction could hardly be a mortal offence, were loud in praise of the purity of his walk in life. [1887, Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, Sir Hall Caine, John Parker Anderson, Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, page 136:]
  • The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.
  • Twenty Acres of Land well kept in a Plantain Walk, will afford a very considerable Support, as Plantains are as hearty a Food as Eddoes, and the Plantain Walk may be a Nursery for declining Slaves, as well as to fatten old Cattle when they are past Labour. [1755, William Belgrove, A Treatise upon Husbandry or Planting, Boston, page 14:]
  • For half a mile from Vaughansfield the road, now a mere track, leads through pastures and a coffee-walk to the foot of a very steep hill […] [1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, page 80:]
  • 1961, Wilson Harris, The Far Journey of Oudin, Book 2, Chapter 6, in The Guyana Quartet, London: Faber and Faber, 1985, p. 150,
  • One day he knew he would build this identical palace for himself. Not next to the road like now—where the present cottage was—but half a mile inside the coconut walk.
  • He couldn’t sleep and took to walking outside at night, to look at the stars, to feel the cool air, and for a long time wasn’t even conscious that he always ended up standing in the darkness of the cocoa walk staring at the shutters of Bridget’s room. [1995, Olive Senior, “Window”, in Discerner of Hearts, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 66:]
  • And for the strongroom itself, he can tell us where to find the combination of the day. We had allowed four hours, Joe, but with this help, once you get us inside, it's a walk! I've been timing it. [1980, Robert Barr, The Coming Out Present (episode of Detective, BBC radio drama; around 16 min 20 sec)]

Etymology

1. From Middle English walc, walk, walke, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“rolling, turning; motion, surging”), from Proto-Germanic *walką.
2. Cognate with Icelandic volk (“difficulty, hardship, trouble”). See: Old English Nouns '*wealc', Icelandic Nouns 'volk'.

Verbs referencing "walk"

French Nouns gauche.