Meanings
plural pedometers
- A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.
He thought that buying a pedometer would spur him on to exercise.
1 more example
A smartphone is not the best camera, notebook, word processor, audio recorder, radio, MP3 player, map reader, pedometer and so on, but it is good enough replace numerous separate devices for most people most of the time.
2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2022
Origin
- Frenchpédomètre
- Englishpedometer
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, combining form for Latin pēs (“foot”), plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο (podómetro)). By surface analysis, pedo- (“foot”) + -meter = pedo- + -ometer.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian крачкомер
- крачкомер (kračkomer)device
Catalan podòmetre, pedòmetre
- podòmetredevice
- pedòmetredevice
- comptapassesdevice
Chinese Mandarin 計步器 /计步器
- 計步器 /计步器 (jìbùqì)device
Czech krokoměr, pedometr
- krokoměrdevice
- pedometrdevice
Dutch stappenteller
- stappentellerdevice
Finnish askelmittari
- askelmittaridevice
French podomètre
- podomètredevice
German Schrittzähler
- Schrittzählerdevice
Greek βηματόμετρο
- βηματόμετρο (vimatómetro)device
Icelandic skrefamælir, skrefmælir
- skrefamælirdevice
- skrefmælirdevice
- skrefateljaridevice
Italian pedometro, contapassi
- pedometrodevice
- contapassidevice
- passimetrodevice
- podometrodevice
Japanese 歩数計, 万歩計
- 歩数計 (hosūkei)device
- 万歩計 (manpokei)device
- 計歩器 (keihoki)device
- ペドメーター (pedomētā)device
Korean 보수계, 보측계
- 보수계 (bosugye)device
- 보측계 (bocheukgye)device
- 보도계 (bodogye)device
- 만보계 (manbogye)device
- 기보기 (gibogi)device
- 측보기 (cheukbogi)device
- 계보기 (gyebogi)device
- 만보기 (manbogi)device
- 페도미터 (pedomiteo)device
Malay pedometer
- pedometerdevice
Polish krokomierz
- krokomierzdevice
Portuguese podómetro, pedómetro
- podómetrodevice
- pedómetrodevice
- podômetrodevice
- pedômetrodevice
Russian шагоме́р, педо́метр
- шагоме́р (šagomér)device
- педо́метр (pedómetr)device
Spanish podómetro, odómetro
- podómetrodevice
- odómetrodevice
- cuentapasosdevice
Swedish stegräknare
- stegräknaredevice
Cite this entry
pedometer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedometer
“pedometer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedometer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pedometer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pedometer.
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