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tour·ist

   [toor-ist]
noun
1.
a person who is traveling, especially for pleasure.
2.
tourist class.
adverb
3.
in tourist-class accommodations, or by tourist-class conveyance: to travel tourist.

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Origin:
1770–80; tour + -ist

Related forms
non·tour·ist, noun
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tourist
first attested 1780, from tour (n.); tourist trap attested from 1939, in Graham Greene.
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