The Only Use of
pedestrian
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited.
p. 71.1pedestrian = walking
Definitions:
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(1)
(pedestrian as in: a pedestrian idea) ordinary and dull -- lacking inspiration, imagination, or excitement
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, pedestrian is used as a noun to refer to a person who is traveling by walking.