Dictionary Definition
itinerant adj
1 traveling from place to place to work;
"itinerant labor"; "an itinerant judge"
2 working for a short time in different places;
"itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring
company" [syn: road,
touring, traveling] n : an itinerant
laborer who works for a short time in various places
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- One who travels from place to place.
- a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
Adjective
itinerant- Habitually travelling from place to place.
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
- ''For the word itinerant used to describe electrons from free-electron metals, see jellium.
Types of itinerants:
Examples of itinerants include:
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner,
Argonaut, Flying
Dutchman, Goliard,
Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, bird of passage,
circuit-riding, drifter,
expeditionary,
floater, gad, gadabout, globe-girdling,
globe-trotting, go-about, going, itinerary, journeying, locomotive, mover, moving, mundivagant, nomadic, on tour, passing, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, progressing, rambler, rambling, ranging, roamer, roaming, rolling stone, rover, roving, runabout, shifting, straggler, stroller, strolling, strolling player,
touring, touristic, touristy, traveling, trekking, troubadour, vagabond, vagrant, visitant, walking, wanderer, wandering, wandering minstrel,
wandering scholar, wayfaring