traveler

[ trav-uh-ler, trav-ler ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that travels.

  2. a person who travels or has traveled in distant places or foreign lands.

  1. part of a mechanism constructed to move in a fixed course.

  2. Textiles. (in ring spinning) a small metal device that moves rapidly around the ring and guides the yarn onto the revolving bobbin.

  3. Nautical.

    • a metal ring or thimble fitted to move freely on a rope, spar, or rod.

    • Also called horse . the rope, spar, or rod itself.

  4. Also trav·eler cur·tain. Theater. a transverse curtain opened by being drawn from both sides of the proscenium.

  5. (often initial capital letter)Chiefly British. a member of any of a number of traditionally itinerant peoples of the British Isles and other English-speaking areas, including, in addition to people of Romani origin, Indigenous groups such as the speakers of Shelta.

Origin of traveler

1
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English travaillour; see travel, -er1
  • Also especially British, trav·el·ler .

Other words from traveler

  • non·trav·el·er; especially British, non·trav·ell·er, noun

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