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tourist

[ toor-ist ]

noun

  1. a person who is traveling, especially for pleasure.


adverb

  1. in tourist-class accommodations, or by tourist-class conveyance:

    to travel tourist.

tourist

/ ˈtʊərɪst /

noun

    1. a person who travels for pleasure, usually sightseeing and staying in hotels
    2. ( as modifier )

      tourist attractions

  1. a person on an excursion or sightseeing tour
  2. a person travelling abroad as a member of a sports team that is playing a series of usually international matches
  3. Also calledtourist class the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship


adjective

  1. of or relating to tourist accommodation

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Derived Forms

  • tourˈistic, adjective

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Other Words From

  • non·tourist noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tourist1

First recorded in 1770–80; tour + -ist

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Example Sentences

Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.

It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

For the Brogpas, transforming into a tourist attraction may offer their community a way to generate much-needed income.

The two islands are now tourist sites for visitors from Taiwan and mainland China.

Not all Israeli gay propaganda is pinkwashing—a lot of it is good, old-fashioned PR to attract gay tourist dollars to Tel Aviv.

The tourist climbing tna, or Vesuvius' rugged side, puffs on though they perchance have long since ceased to smoke.

They have developed fishing and agriculture, and have brought the tourist into districts little visited before.

Mr. Frank Cook had insisted upon our being the guests of his firm on their tourist steamer Amasis.

My father knew him well, often talked to me about him, and told me stories of the excursion and tourist trade in its early days.

This was the first small beginning of that great tourist business which now encircles the habitable globe.

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