Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty.
- noun One who travels from place to place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Traveling from place to place; wandering; not settled; strolling; specifically, going from place to place, especially on a circuit, in the discharge of duty: as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant judge.
- noun One who travels from place to place; a traveler; a wanderer; specifically, one who travels from place to place, especially on a circuit, in the discharge of duty or the pursuit of business, as an itinerant judge or preacher, or a strolling actor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled
- adjective One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Habitually
travelling from place to place. - noun One who
travels from place to place. - noun Ireland a member of the
Travelling Community , whether settled or not.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective traveling from place to place to work
- noun a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One definition of itinerant is - traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty.
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One definition of itinerant is - traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty.
October 2006 2006
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The difference between the regular trader and the _coureur des bois_, (as the French call the itinerant or peddling traders,) with respect to the sale of spirits, is here, as it always has been, fixed and permanent, and growing out of the nature of their trade.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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Mr. Wang is the kind of itinerant worker found in China by the millions, wandering from city to city in these boom years, and so it was chance that brought him home two days before the quake.
Expressing Emotions about the Sichuan Earthquake « Peace Corps: China 2008
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Is there a threshold below which we would have to judge Mark "pure fiction," even if a historical person named Jesus existed, had some kind of itinerant ministry in Galilee and the surrounding area, and was crucified in Jerusalem under Pilate?
Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010
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He noted that the Bible was full of people on the move, including Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus — and that his office is tasked with dealing with all "itinerant" people — from refugees to prostitutes, truck drivers to the homeless.
The Vatican Issues 10 Commandments for Drivers | Impact Lab 2007
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Before his time, those kind of itinerant authors, called troubadours or romanciers, were a species of madmen who attracted the admiration of fools.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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They were "itinerant," going on foot from place to place, and wearing coarse robes tied round the waist with a rope.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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And again, an "itinerant" came along with a machine known as a lung-tester; one fair-haired, slender youth, having fears he would fall below the average, made so great an effort as seriously to impair his health for the time.
blame commented on the word itinerant
It's just occurred to me that this probably shares a root with "itinerary."
December 5, 2006
reallifepixel commented on the word itinerant
Early Methodist preachers
July 28, 2009
mohitanand commented on the word itinerant
traveling from place to place to work
Doctors used to be itinerant, traveling between patients' homes.
October 19, 2016