traveller
See also: Traveller
English
Alternative forms
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.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
traveller (plural travellers)
- One who travels, especially to distant lands.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371:
- They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
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- 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
- 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.
- (dated) A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
- (British) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
- (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Traveller
- 2010, R. Todd Felton, A Journey Into Ireland's Literary Revival, →ISBN, page 213:
- It provoked criticism for its portrayal of a woman who leaves her marriage for life with a solitary traveler. Irish women did not do those sorts of things, the audiences felt (although the plot came from a story told to Synge on Inis Meain).
- 2012, Mark Connelly, The IRA on Film and Television: A History, →ISBN, page 212:
- Kevin chases after him through a forest and finds the horse with Joseph Maguire (Ian Holm), a poetry-reciting traveler (Irish gypsy).
- 2012, Maria Pramaggiore, Irish and African American Cinema, →ISBN, page 152:
- ...settled Irish people of Southern Ireland treat the traveler boys with racist hostility (2001 180–81).
- A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
- (nautical) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
- (bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
- 2008, David Galt, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge, →ISBN, page 263:
- At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer.
- (US, Mississippi Delta) A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.
- 2015: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
- Nowhere else in the world had I seen such gigantic measures of liquor poured, such widespread enthusiasm for Bloodies and Mimosas on weekend mornings, or such firm insistence on giving sixteen-ounce Styrofoam cups loaded with iced liquor to guests leaving a party, so they might have a "traveler" for the drive home.
- At a bar in Yazoo City, the bartender asked me if I wanted to "go tall" with my bourbon on the rocks. I didn't know what he meant, but it sounded encouraging. "Sure," I said, "Let's go tall." He filled up a pint glass with ice. Then he filled it to the brim with bourbon. When I got up to leave with about half the drink gone, he poured the rest of it into a Styrofoam cup, assuming I would want a traveler.
- 2015: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
Translations
one who travels
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caravan dweller
Ireland: member of the nomadic ethnic minority — see Irish Traveller
list and record of instructions
nautical: metal ring
See also
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