Thesaurus: itinerant
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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Definitions
- a. Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
- a. One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.
- adj. traveling from place to place to work
- n. a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
- Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. 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. One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.
- Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on acircuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; anitinerant peddler.The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king'spalace, and removing with his household in those royal progresseswhich he continually made. Blackstone.
- j:100 n. a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment s. traveling from place to place to work