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i·tin·er·ant

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nt, i-tin-] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	traveling from place to place, esp. on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.

2.	characterized by such traveling: itinerant preaching.

3.	working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering: an itinerant farm hand.

–noun

4.	a person who alternates between working and wandering.

5.	a person who travels from place to place, esp. for duty or business.

[Origin: 1560–70; < LL itinerant- (s. of itinerāns), prp. of itinerārī to journey, equiv. to itiner- (s. of iter) journey (see iter) + -ant- -ant

]

—Related forms

i·tin·er·ant·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 1, 3. wandering, nomadic, migratory, unsettled, roving, roaming; peripatetic.

—Antonyms 1. settled.

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i·tin·er·ant Audio Help   (ī-tĭn'ər-ənt, ĭ-tĭn'-) Pronunciation Key
adj.   Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor.

n.   One who travels from place to place.

[Late Latin itinerāns, itinerant-, present participle of itinerārī, to travel, from Latin iter, itiner-, journey; see ei- in Indo-European roots.]

i·tin'er·ant·ly adv.

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itinerant

1570 (attested in Anglo-L. from 1292), from L.L. itinerantem (nom. itinerans), prp. of itinerare "to travel," from L. iter (gen. itineris) "journey," from ire "go" (see ion). Originally in ref. to circuit courts. Itinerary is from 1432, from L.L. itinerarium "account of a journey," from noun use of neut. of itinerarius "of a journey," from L. itineris.

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itinerant
adjective
1.	traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor"; "an itinerant judge"
noun
1.	a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders"

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itinerant [iˈtinərənt] adjective

travelling from place to place, eg on business
Example: an itinerant preacher

Arabic:	مُتَجَوِّل
Chinese (Simplified):	巡游的
Chinese (Traditional):	巡遊的
Czech:	putující; potulný
Danish:	omrejsende
Dutch:	rondreizend
Estonian:	ringireisiv
Finnish:	kiertävä
French:	itinérant
German:	Wander-…
Greek:	περιοδεύων
Hungarian:	vándor(ló)
Icelandic:	farand-
Indonesian:	keliling
Italian:	itinerante

Japanese:	巡回の
Korean:	순회하는
Latvian:	ceļojošs
Lithuanian:	keliaujantis
Norwegian:	(om)reisende, omgangs-
Polish:	wędrowny
Portuguese (Brazil):	itinerante
Portuguese (Portugal):	itinerante
Romanian:	itinerant
Russian:	странствующий
Slovak:	cestujúci, kočovný, potulný
Slovenian:	potujoč
Spanish:	itinerante
Swedish:	kringresande, kringvandrande
Turkish:	gezici, gezgin

See also: itinerary

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Itinerant

Er"rant\, a. [F. errant, p. pr. fr. OF. errer to travel, LL. iterare, fr. L. iter journey; confused somewhat with L. errare to err. See Eyre, and cf. Arrant, Itinerant.]

1. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.

Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. --Sir T. Browne.

2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.

Would make me an errant fool. --B. Jonson.

3. (Eng. Law) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. --Mozley & W.

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Itinerant

Eyre\ ([^a]r), n. [OF. erre journey, march, way, fr. L. iter, itineris, a going, way, fr. the root of ire to go. Cf. Errant, Itinerant, Issue.] (O. Eng. Law) A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

Note: They were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit, holding courts in the different counties.

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