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itinerant

[ ahy-tin-er-uhnt, ih-tin- ]

adjective

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

    Synonyms: peripatetic, roving, unsettled, migratory, nomadic, wandering

    Antonyms: settled

  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.

    Synonyms: peripatetic, roving, unsettled, migratory, nomadic, wandering



noun

  1. a person who alternates between working and wandering.
  2. a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.

itinerant

/ ɪˈtɪnərənt; aɪ- /

adjective

  1. itinerating
  2. working for a short time in various places, esp as a casual labourer


noun

  1. an itinerant worker or other person

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Derived Forms

  • iˈtinerantly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • i·tiner·ant·ly adverb
  • uni·tiner·ant adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of itinerant1

1560–70; < Late Latin itinerant- (stem of itinerāns ), present participle of itinerārī to journey, equivalent to itiner- (stem of iter ) journey ( iter ) + -ant- -ant

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Word History and Origins

Origin of itinerant1

C16: from Late Latin itinerārī to travel, from iter a journey

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Example Sentences

Instead, the 101-year-old recalls a childhood marked by grueling labor and an itinerant lifestyle.

From Time

Nomadland, a drama about itinerant workers traveling the American West, won best picture.

From Quartz

Now those orange itinerants are showing up in far fewer numbers.

Fern’s friend Linda May tips her off to an annual gathering of “nomads,” as the itinerant older seasonal workers call themselves.

From Vox

Neutral backgrounds free of visual distractions can help even more, says Carola Martinez, an itinerant teacher of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in New York City public schools.

Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.

Bright is forty-five now, a baseball itinerant since the day he signed a contract with the Yankees at the age of sixteen.

In the meantime, he continued his itinerant existence, sometimes living for months in his Airstream trailer with no phone.

This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.

The same might be said of another delicately handsome itinerant, T. E. Lawrence.

She is thirty-five now, quite plain, and makes a living as a sort of itinerant housekeeper and caterer.

This itinerant merchant was commissioned to haunt the Kano gate until impatience or curiosity should fling it wide for him.

The circuits of the Justices Itinerant were restored, and appeals to the king in Council were established.

The Collahuayas of Peru were a guild of itinerant quacks and magicians, who never remained permanently in one spot.

Its chapels multiplied in the great towns, and its itinerant missionaries penetrated to the most secluded districts.

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