 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
itinerant
adjective
1: traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor";
"an itinerant judge"
2: working for a short time in different places; "itinerant
laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring
company" [syn: {road}, {touring}, {traveling}]
noun: an itinerant laborer who works for a short time in various
places
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\, adjective
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\ ([-i]*t[i^]n"[~e]r*ant), adjective [LL.
itinerans, -antis, p. pr. of itinerare to make a journey, fr.
L. iter, itineris, a walk, way, journey. See {Errant},
{Issue}.]
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "itinerant":
Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard,
Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory,
bird of passage, circuit-riding, drifter, expeditionary, floater,
gad, gadabout, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, go-about, going,
itinerary, journeying, locomotive, mover, moving, mundivagant,
nomadic, on tour, passing, pedestrian, perambulating,
perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic,
pilgrimlike, progressing, rambler, rambling, ranging, roamer,
roaming, rolling stone, rover, roving, runabout, shifting,
straggler, stroller, strolling, strolling player, touring,
touristic, touristy, traveling, trekking, troubadour, vagabond,
vagrant, visitant, walking, wanderer, wandering,
wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wayfaring
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