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itinerant - 5 dictionary results

i⋅tin⋅er⋅ant

  [ahy-tin-er-uhnt, i-tin-]
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–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   (ī-tĭn'ər-ənt, ĭ-tĭn'-)   
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

I*tin"er*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.

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.

Itinerant

I*tin"er*ant\, a. One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.

Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. --Hudibras.
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Language Translation for : itinerant
Spanish: itinerante,
German: Wander-…,
Japanese: 巡回の
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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