pedestrianised

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Pedestrianised means closed to vehicles so people can walk freely. A pedestrianised street, pedestrianised since the eighties.

Shops fight it before it happens and benefit from it afterwards, which is the pattern almost everywhere. A pedestrianised street still needs deliveries, which is why the ban usually lifts before ten.

Definitions of pedestrianised

1adjectivepedestrianisedClosed to vehicles so people can walk freely.C1
“The high street was pedestrianised and the takings went up.”

pedestrianised is a quality.

Where it comes from

pedestrianise comes from pedestrian + -ise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the City

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pedestrianised in the wild

Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster.
Carnaby Street
Briggate is a pedestrianised principal shopping street in Leeds city centre, England, considered by Leeds City Council to be "the busiest 'High Street' in the region".
Briggate
The street was pedestrianised in the late-20th century.
Briggate
Queen Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in central Oxford, England.
Queen Street, Oxford
Here it adjoins Cornmarket Street to the north (also pedestrianised), the High Street continuing east, and St Aldate's to the south.
Queen Street, Oxford

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