promenader

English

Etymology

From promenade ‎ -er.

Noun

promenader (plural promenaders)

1. Agent noun of promenade; one who promenades.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 130:

     There were one or two cartloads of refugees passing along Oxford Street, and several in the Marylebone Road, but so slowly was the news spreading that Regent Street and Portland Road were full of their usual Sunday-night promenaders, albeit they talked in groups[.]

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 15, in Billy Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

     […] Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd […]

   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 54:

     When Bournemouth began laying track, it splashed onto the scene in style, launching two in 1908 with the East Cliff and West Cliff Lifts. Both connected promenaders with the beach, at extreme ends of the town.

2. (chiefly UK, music) An attender at, or devotee of, promenade concerts.

Swedish

Noun

promenader

1. indefinite plural of promenad

Anagrams

• promenerad