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walk of life

walk of life noun: an occupation, role, social class, or lifestyle.

Noun

walk of life (plural walks of life)

  1. (idiomatic) An occupation, role, social class, or lifestyle.
    • Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.
    • Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Signalmen's rewards”, in Modern Railways, page 82

walk of life meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

walk of life in Bengali

পেশা, ভূমিকা, সামাজিক শ্রেণী, জীবনধারা

walk of life in Malayalam

status, class, rank
സാമൂഹികനില, സാമൂഹികപദവി, ജീവിതമേഖല, കർമ്മപഥം, ജീവിതപ്പാത, ജീവിതസരണി

walk of life in Kannada

ಜೀವನವೃತ್ತಿ, ಜೀವನೋಪಾಯ, ಉದ್ಯೋಗ, ವೃತ್ತಿ, ಕಸಬು

Forms of walk of life

pluralwalks of life

Questions about walk of life

What does walk of life mean?
Walk of life means an occupation, role, social class, or lifestyle.
What is walk of life in Bengali?
Walk of life in Bengali is পেশা, ভূমিকা, সামাজিক শ্রেণী. See Walk of life meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is walk of life?
Walk of life is a noun.
What is the plural of walk of life?
The plural of walk of life is walks of life.

Words near walk of life in the dictionary

  1. walk in the snow
  2. walk into
  3. walk it like one talks it
  4. walk like an Egyptian
  5. walk of fame
  6. walk of life
  7. walk of shame
  8. walk off
  9. walk off the job
  10. walk off with
  11. walk on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: walk of life (page history and authors); walk of life (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); walk of life (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); walk of life (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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