itinerant

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/aɪˈtɪnɚənt/

Definition of itinerant

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Habitually travelling from place to place.
    “an itinerant preacher or peddler”
    “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.”
    “most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher.”
    “The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.”
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adj

  1. Habitually travelling from place to place.
    “an itinerant preacher or peddler”
    “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.”
    “most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher.”
    “The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.”

noun

  1. One who travels from place to place.
  2. (Ireland)A member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
  3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of itinerant (“member of the Travelling Community”).

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”), from itiner-. By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ant.

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