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excursionist

noun

Etymology

From excursion + -ist.

  1. borrowed from excursiō
  2. suffixed as excursionist — “excursion + ist”

Definitions

  1. A person who goes on an excursion

    A person who goes on an excursion; a traveller or tourist

    • I was provided with a receipt and duly and officially accepted as an excursionist.
    • Coming home, a party of excursionists from Chertsey or Isleworth passed us singing and playing music.
    • The main line of the L.N.W.R. passed to the west of the Potteries, and it is recorded that in August, 1846, two trains were run from Whitmore (the nearest station to Stoke) to Liverpool for the benefit of excursionists.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for excursionist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA