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Skywalker

Skywalker

60 6.8
A last name of main characters in Star Wars, for example Luke and Anakin Skywalker
  • proper noun
: Skywalker
  • Your Master, Luke Skywalker, was saved by his father.
  • Luke Skywalker

I once dressed as Luke Skywalker from Return of the Jedi in high school.

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Examples

  • I once dressed as Luke Skywalker from Return of the Jedi in high school.

    Film Courage

  • The story of Luke Skywalker blew the world away.

  • I understand how Luke Skywalker felt now.

    Father Figures (2017)

  • And one of them was like Luke Skywalker going around the Death Star looking for the weak spot.

    The Jonathan Ross Show

  • I have you now, young Skywalker.

    Life in a Day (2011)

  • Vader wanted Skywalker alive; that was what had been in his tone.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Twisted by the dark side, Young Skywalker has become the boy you've trained.

  • Lev: I feel like Luke Skywalker when he learned Darth Vader is his father.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • It was Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle's house.

  • In the Star Wars series, Luke Skywalker trains to become a Jedi Knight.

Surface Forms

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Morphology

Skywalker = sky + walker (semi-transparent) = sky + walker

The components 'sky' and 'walker' are immediately recognizable, but as a fictional surname the compound functions as a proper name rather than a productive descriptive term for most learners.

Etymology

Skywalker is a made-up name from sky ('the air or space above Earth') and walker ('one who walks'), so it suggests 'one who walks the sky'. Think of Luke and Anakin, heroes who travel in space and move between worlds, and that is why the name fits them.