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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
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.
- 1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook (page 105)
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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
- → 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
- → 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
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