itinerant

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(ī-tĭn'ər-ənt, ĭ-tĭn'-) pronunciation
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.

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adjective

  1. Leading the life of a person without a fixed domicile; moving from place to place: nomadic, peripatetic, vagabond, vagrant. See move/halt.
  2. Moving from one area to another in search of work: migrant, migratory. See move/halt.

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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

Itinerants throughout history and today

"The Blind Girl" (1856), depicting two vagrants.
Bajau nomad.

Notable itinerants

See also

References

  1. ^ Itinerant Synonyms, Itinerant Antonyms at Thesaurus.com
  2. ^ Definition of itinerant from Oxford Dictionaries

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Translations:

Itinerant

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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

Italiano (Italian)
ambulante

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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