itinerant

4 definitions found

itinerant - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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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itinerant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  itinerant
      adj 1: traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor";
             "an itinerant judge"
      n 1: a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by
           employment; "itinerant traders" [syn: itinerant, gypsy,
           gipsy]

itinerant - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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