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Definition of: pedestrian
(pə·des′trē·ən) adjective 
1. Moving on foot; walking; pertaining to walking. 
2. Pertaining to common people; plebeian. 
3. Hence, commonplace, prosaic, or dull, as prose or mechanical verse. 
—noun One who journeys or moves from place to place on foot; a walker. [<L pedester, -tris on foot <pes, pedis a foot] 
—pe·des′tri·an·ism noun
 
				
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