itinerant

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
itinerant
    adj 1: traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor";
           "an itinerant judge"
    n 1: a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by
         employment; "itinerant traders" [syn: {itinerant}, {gypsy},
         {gipsy}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\, a.
   One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher;
   one who is unsettled.
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         Glad to turn itinerant,
         To stroll and teach from town to town.   --Hudibras.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\ ([-i]*t[i^]n"[~e]r*ant), a. [LL.
   itinerans, -antis, p. pr. of itinerare to make a journey, fr.
   L. iter, itineris, a walk, way, journey. See {Errant},
   {Issue}.]
   Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a
   circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher;
   an itinerant peddler.
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         The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept
         in the king's palace, and removing with his household
         in those royal progresses which he continually made.
                                                  --Blackstone.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "itinerant":
      Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard,
      Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory,
      bird of passage, circuit-riding, drifter, expeditionary, floater,
      gad, gadabout, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, go-about, going,
      itinerary, journeying, locomotive, mover, moving, mundivagant,
      nomadic, on tour, passing, pedestrian, perambulating,
      perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic,
      pilgrimlike, progressing, rambler, rambling, ranging, roamer,
      roaming, rolling stone, rover, roving, runabout, shifting,
      straggler, stroller, strolling, strolling player, touring,
      touristic, touristy, traveling, trekking, troubadour, vagabond,
      vagrant, visitant, walking, wanderer, wandering,
      wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wayfaring

    

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