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itinerant
[ ahy-tin-er-uhnt, ih-tin- ]
adjective
- 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
- characterized by such traveling:
itinerant preaching.
- 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
- a person who alternates between working and wandering.
- a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.
itinerant
/ ɪˈtɪnərənt; aɪ- /
adjective
- itinerating
- working for a short time in various places, esp as a casual labourer
noun
- an itinerant worker or other person
Derived Forms
- iˈtinerantly, adverb
Other Words From
- i·tiner·ant·ly adverb
- uni·tiner·ant adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of itinerant1
Word History and Origins
Origin of itinerant1
Example Sentences
Instead, the 101-year-old recalls a childhood marked by grueling labor and an itinerant lifestyle.
Nomadland, a drama about itinerant workers traveling the American West, won best picture.
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.
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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