tourist

See also: Tourist

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tour +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊəɹɪst/, /ˈtɔːɹɪst/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹ.ɪst/, /ˈtɝ.ɪst/, /ˈtɔɹ.ɪst/
Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʊəɹɪst, -ɔːɹɪst

Noun[edit]

tourist (plural tourists)

Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
(derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
(sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.
(computing, dated) A guest user on a computer system.
- 1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook (page 105)
  This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.
- 2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web
  The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.

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Descendants[edit]

→ Albanian: turist
→ Armenian: տուրիստ (turist)
→ Asturian: turista
→ Azerbaijani: turist
→ Belarusian: турыст (turyst)
→ Catalan: turista
→ Czech: turista
→ Danish: turist
→ Dutch: toerist
→ Estonian: turist
→ Finnish: turisti
→ French: touriste
- → Persian: توریست‎ (turist)
- → Italian: turista
  - → Afar: tuurísti
  - → Cimbrian: turist
  - → Mòcheno: turist
- → Norman: touriste
- → Romanian: turist
- → Turkish: turist
→ Galician: turista
→ Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)
→ German: Tourist
→ Greek: τουρίστας (tourístas)
→ Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)
→ Hungarian: turista
→ Indonesian: turis
→ Japanese: ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)
→ Kazakh: турист (turist)
→ Kyrgyz: турист (turist)
→ Latvian: tūrists
→ Lithuanian: turistas
→ Macedonian: турист (turist)
→ Norwegian: turist
- → Northern Sami: turista, durista
→ Occitan: torista
→ Polish: turysta
→ Portuguese: turista
→ Russian: турист (turist)
→ Serbo-Croatian: turist / турист
→ Slovak: turista
→ Slovene: turist
→ Spanish: turista
→ Swedish: turist
→ Tagalog: turista
→ Turkmen: turist
→ Ukrainian: турист (turyst)
→ Uzbek: turist
→ Welsh: twrist
→ Yiddish: טוריסט‎ (turist)

Translations[edit]

someone who travels for pleasure

Albanian: turist (sq) m
Amharic: ቱሪስት (turist)
Arabic: سَائِح‎ m (sāʔiḥ), سَائِحَة‎ f (sāʔiḥa)
Egyptian Arabic: سايح‎ m (sāyiḥ)
Armenian: զբոսաշրջիկ (hy) (zbosašrǰik), տուրիստ (hy) (turist)
Asturian: turista m or f
Azerbaijani: turist (az), səyyah (az), səyahətçi
Belarusian: туры́ст m (turýst), туры́стка f (turýstka)
Bengali: পর্যটক (porĵoṭok)
Bulgarian: тури́ст (bg) m (turíst), тури́стка f (turístka)
Burmese: ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသည် (my) (kambhahlany.hka.ri:sany), ခရီးသည် (my) (hka.ri:sany), တူးရစ် (tu:rac), တိုရစ် (tuirac)
Catalan: turista (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旅游者 (zh) (lǚyóuzhě), 游客 (zh) (yóukè), 游人 (zh) (yóurén), 觀光客／观光客 (zh) (guānguāngkè)
Czech: turista (cs) m, turistika (cs) f
Danish: turist (da)
Dutch: toerist (nl) m, toeriste (nl) f
Esperanto: turisto
Estonian: turist
Finnish: turisti (fi), matkailija (fi)
French: touriste (fr) m or f
Galician: turista (gl) m or f
Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)
German: Tourist (de) m, Touristin (de) f, Vergnügungsreisender m, Vergnügungsreisende f, Reisender (de) m, Reisende (de) f
Greek: τουρίστας (el) m (tourístas)
Hebrew: תייר \ תַיָר‎ m (tayár)
Hindi: पर्यटक (hi) m (paryaṭak), टूरिस्ट m (ṭūrisṭ)
Hungarian: turista (hu)
Icelandic: ferðamaður m
Ido: turisto (io)
Indonesian: turis (id), wisatawan (id)
Irish: turasóir m, cuairteoir m, fámaire m
Italian: turista (it) m or f
Japanese: 旅行者 (ja) (りょこうしゃ, ryokōsha), 観光客 (かんこうきゃく, kankōkyaku), ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)
Kazakh: турист (kk) (turist), саяхатшы (saäxatşy)
Khmer: អ្នកទេសចរ (nĕək teihsaʼcɑɑ), ទេសចរ (teihsaʼcɑɑ)
Korean: 관광객(觀光客) (ko) (gwan'gwanggaek), 여행자(旅行者) (ko) (yeohaengja), 려행자(旅行者) (ryeohaengja) (North Korea)
Kyrgyz: турист (ky) (turist), саякатчы (ky) (sayakatçı)
Lao: ນັກທ່ອງທ່ຽວ (nak thǭng thiāu)
Latvian: tūrists m, tūriste f
Lithuanian: turistas (lt) m, turistė f, keliautojas m, keliautoja f
Luhya: omtali
Macedonian: тури́ст m (turíst), тури́стка f (turístka)
Malay: pelancong
Maori: tūruhi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: жуулчин (mn) (žuulčin), турист (turist)
Mòcheno: turist m
Norman: touriste m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: turist m
Occitan: torista m or f
Pashto: سياح‎ m (sayāh), ټوريسټ‎ m (ṭorísṭ)
Persian: توریست‎ (fa) (turist), سیاح‎ (fa) (sayyâh)
Polish: turysta (pl) m, turystka (pl) f
Portuguese: turista (pt) m or f
Romanian: turist (ro) m, turistă (ro) f
Russian: тури́ст (ru) m (turíst), тури́стка (ru) f (turístka), путеше́ственник (ru) m (putešéstvennik), путеше́ственница (ru) f (putešéstvennica)
Rwanda-Rundi: ingezi
Scottish Gaelic: neach-turais m or f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ту̀рист m, ту̀ристкиња f

Roman: tùrist (sh) m, tùristkinja (sh) f
Sinhalese: සංචාරක (saṁcāraka)
Slovak: turista m, turistika f
Slovene: turȋst (sl) m, turistka f
Spanish: turista (es) m or f
Swahili: mtalii (sw)
Swedish: turist (sv) c
Tagalog: turista (tl)
Tajik: сайёҳ (tg) (sayyoh)
Thai: นักท่องเที่ยว (th) (nák-tɔ̂ng-tîao)
Tibetan: ཡུལ་སྐོར་བ (yul skor ba)
Turkish: turist (tr), gezgin (tr), gezici (tr), gezmen (tr), seyyah (tr)
Turkmen: turist, syýahatçy
Ukrainian: тури́ст m (turýst), тури́стка f (turýstka)
Urdu: سیاح‎ (ur) m (sayyāh), ٹورسٹ‎ (ur) m (ṭūrisṭ)
Uyghur: ساياھەتچى‎ (ug) (sayahetchi)
Uzbek: turist (uz), sayyoh (uz), sayohatchi (uz)
Vietnamese: khách du lịch
Volapük: (♂♀) töran (vo), (♂) hitöran, (♀) jitöran
Welsh: teithiwr (cy) m, twrist m
Yiddish: טוריסט‎ m (turist)
Zhuang: youzhek

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