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\ ([-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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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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