walkable

From walk + -able.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːkəbəl/, [ˈwɔːkəbɫ̩]
• Rhymes: -ɔːkəbəl

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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