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traveler

noun

Etymology

From travel + -er.

  1. derived from travailler — “to trouble, suffer, be worn out”
  2. derived from travailen — “to toil, work, travel”
  3. inherited from travelen — “to make a laborious journey, travel”
  4. formed as traveler — “travel + -er”

Definitions

  1. US standard spelling of traveller.

    • The traveler on this road stands a fair chance of missing his connecting links in the great railway chain which interthreads the continent east and west […]
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
    • It’s quick and easy protein for a knight errant or other woods traveler, with a nutty/corny/buckwheaty flavor to it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at traveler. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at traveler. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at traveler

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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