Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\, a.
One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher;
one who is unsettled.
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Glad to turn itinerant,
To stroll and teach from town to town. --Hudibras.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\ ([-i]*t[i^]n"[~e]r*ant), a. [LL.
itinerans, -antis, p. pr. of itinerare to make a journey, fr.
L. iter, itineris, a walk, way, journey. See Errant,
Issue.]
Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a
circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher;
an itinerant peddler.
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The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept
in the king's palace, and removing with his household
in those royal progresses which he continually made.
--Blackstone.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
WordNet (r) 2.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "itinerant":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
road, touring, traveling
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