Itinerant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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