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traveller

noun
/ˈtɹævələ/UK/ˈtɹævəlɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.

  1. inherited from traveler

Definitions

  1. One who travels, especially to distant lands.

    • The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

  2. A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.

  3. Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than…

    Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Alternative letter-case form of Traveller.

      • Kevin chases after him through a forest and finds the horse with Joseph Maguire (Ian Holm), a poetry-reciting traveler (Irish gypsy).
      • ...settled Irish people of Southern Ireland treat the traveler boys with racist hostility (2001 180–81).

    2. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.

    3. One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.

    4. A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.

    5. A rail or track for a sliding curtain.

      • That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […]

    6. A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record…

      A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.

      • At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer.

    7. A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.

    8. Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread…

      Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread or yarn); several types exist.

      • ring traveler
      • ring traveller

    9. Ellipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland.

      • The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”.

    10. A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway.

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Derived

armchair traveller, Canadian traveller problem, commercial traveller, fellow traveller, fellow-traveller, New Age traveller, sheet traveller, time-traveller, traveller hook, Travellers Rest, traveller's tale

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at traveller. 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 traveller. 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 traveller

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