itinerant
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i·tin·er·ant
(ī-tĭn'ər-ənt, ĭ-tĭn'-) 
adj.
Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor.
n.
One who travels from place to place.
adj.
Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor.
n.
One who travels from place to place.
[Late Latin itinerāns, itinerant-, present participle of itinerārī, to travel, from Latin iter, itiner-, journey.]
itinerantly i·tin'er·ant·ly adv.Roget's Thesaurus:
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itinerant
adj
Definition: roaming
Antonyms: permanent, sedentary, settled
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An itinerant is a person who travels from place to place with no fixed home.[1] The term comes from the late 16th century: from late Latin itinerant (travelling), from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner (journey, road).[2]
Types of itinerants
- Drifters (rogues, rovers, vagabonds, vagrants)
- Perpetual travelers, including illegal aliens (migrants)
- Nomads, including hunter-gatherers and gypsies
- Hobos, including tramps, bums, derelicts
- Refugees and displaced persons
- Street people (street children, paupers, squatters, waifs, schnorrers)
- World citizens
Itinerants throughout history and today
- Freight Train Riders of America (freighthoppers in United States)
- Romani people
- Various indigenous peoples (indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples)
- Afar people in Horn of Africa
- Bajau people of Philippines
- Banjara of India
- Bedouin (nomadic Arab people of the desert)
- Beja people in North Africa
- Bushmen of Southern Africa
- Dom people in North Africa and Western Asia
- Eurasian nomads of Eurasian Steppe
- Ghilzai in South-Central Asia
- Indigenous Australians
- Indigenous Norwegian Travellers
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Irish Travellers
- Kuchi people of Afghanistan
- Nomads of India
- Pygmy peoples in Equatorial Africa and parts of Southeast Asia
- Quinqui in northeren half of Spain)
- Scottish Travellers
- Yeniche people in Europe
- Carnies (travelling show-people)
- Hippies, including New Age travellers and Rainbow Travellers
- Jossers (circus artists)
- Kobzari (musicians of Ukraine)
- Lightermen (bargees in England)
- Peredvizhniki (realist artists of Russia)
- Swagmen (homeless transients in Australia and New Zealand)
- Circuit riders and Gyrovagues (Christian ministers and monks)
- Bhikkhus (Buddhist monks)
- Mendicants (beggars of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism and Buddhism)
- Pilgrims (religious travellers)
- Sadhus (Jain monks)
Notable itinerants
- Alexander Supertramp
- Kinga Freespirit
- Albert Einstein
- Democritus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Gautama Buddha
- Historical Jesus
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References
- ^ Itinerant Synonyms, Itinerant Antonyms at Thesaurus.com
- ^ Definition of itinerant from Oxford Dictionaries
Further reading
- Jack Kerouac (1957). On the Road. Viking Press. ISBN 0-14-118267-9.
- Rolf Potts (2002). Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. Villard Books. ISBN 0-8129-9218-0.
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Itinerant
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - omrejsende, omvandrende
n. - omrejsende, omvandrende
Nederlands (Dutch)
rondreizend, zwervend
Français (French)
adj. - itinérant, nomade
n. - vagabond
Deutsch (German)
n. - Landstreicher
adj. - umherziehend, Wander-
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - περιοδεύων, πλανόδιος, πλάνης, αλήτης
adj. - περιοδεύων, πλανόδιος
Português (Portuguese)
n., -
adj. - itinerante
Русский (Russian)
странствующий
Español (Spanish)
adj. - itinerante, ambulante
n. - viandante
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (kring)resande (person), resepredikant, vandrande spelman, gårdfarihandlare
adj. - (kring)resande, kringvandrande
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
巡回的, 巡回者
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 巡迴的
n. - 巡迴者
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 순회하는, 지방 순회의
n. - 편력자, 순회 설교자, 행상인
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 遍歴者, 巡回判事
adj. - 巡回する, 地方巡回の
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) المتجول (صفه) متجول, متنقل
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - נוסע ממקום למקום, נווד, נע באופן מחזורי (שופט וכו')
n. - נוסע ממקום למקום, נווד
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