Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To convert (a street) into a mall or pedestrian walkway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To travel along or through on foot or as a pedestrian: as, to
pedestrianize the valley of the Rhine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To practice walking; to travel on foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
restrict access to astreet topedestrians only - verb dated To
walk ; to travel on foot.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is an attempt to pedestrianize the middle class.
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It is an attempt to pedestrianize the middle class.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Proletarianization of the Middle Class 2008
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It is an attempt to pedestrianize the middle class.
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In order to have a successful pedestrian mall, you have to have pedestrians, so it works best if you pedestrianize areas where there are already a lot of people walking out of necessity.
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In order to have a successful pedestrian mall, you have to have pedestrians, so it works best if you pedestrianize areas where there are already a lot of people walking out of necessity.
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But if he would pedestrianize everywhere, London remained the walking ground of his heart.
Life of Charles Dickens Marzials, Frank 1887
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But if he would pedestrianize everywhere, London remained the walking ground of his heart.
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"We still need a major spruce-up of the town, including working on local historic buildings and diverting traffic to pedestrianize certain areas," said William Tatham, vice president of cruise shipping and marina operations for Jamaica's port authority.
Jamaica falls behind schedule to open cruise port - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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"We still need a major spruce-up of the town, including working on local historic buildings and diverting traffic to pedestrianize certain areas," said William Tatham, vice president of cruise shipping and marina operations for Jamaica's port authority.
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Looks like that idea to pedestrianize Market Street may actually be for real this time resurrected the old idea last summer - heady days, those were, of roller bladers and zombie dancers.
Curbed SF 2009
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