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adjective
1.
traveling from place to place, especially 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, especially for duty or business.
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Itinerant
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Origin:
1560–70; < Late Latin itinerant- (stem of itinerāns), present participle of itinerārī to journey, equivalent to itiner- (stem of iter) journey (see iter) + -ant- -ant
1560–70; < Late Latin itinerant- (stem of itinerāns), present participle of itinerārī to journey, equivalent to itiner- (stem of iter) journey (see iter) + -ant- -ant
Related forms
i·tin·er·ant·ly, adverb
un·i·tin·er·ant, adjective
Synonyms
1, 3. wandering, nomadic, migratory, unsettled, roving, roaming; peripatetic.
1, 3. wandering, nomadic, migratory, unsettled, roving, roaming; peripatetic.
Antonyms
1. settled.
1. settled.
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Word Origin & History
itinerant
1560s (attested in Anglo-L. from late 13c.), from L.L. itinerantem (nom. itinerans), prp. of itinerare "to travel," from L. iter (gen. itineris) "journey," from ire "go" (see ion). Originally in reference to circuit courts.
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