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TRAVELLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who changes location
Synonyms:
traveler; traveller
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("traveller" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "traveller"):
journeyer; wayfarer (a traveler going on a trip)
bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer (someone who leads a wandering unsettled life)
voyager (a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea))
visitant; visitor (someone who visits)
trekker (a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country))
transient (one who stays for only a short time)
holidaymaker; tourer; tourist (someone who travels for pleasure)
bather; natator; swimmer (a person who travels through the water by swimming)
scourer (someone who travels widely and energetically)
runner (someone who travels on foot by running)
rider (a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle))
rider (a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel))
rafter; raftman; raftsman (someone who travels by raft)
footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)
passenger; rider (a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it)
musher (a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team)
absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)
air traveler; air traveller (someone who travels by airplane)
arrival; arriver; comer (someone who arrives (or has arrived))
astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)
business traveler (a traveler whose expenses are paid by the business he works for)
bearer; carrier; toter (someone whose employment involves carrying something)
companion; fellow traveler; fellow traveller (a traveler who accompanies you)
entrant (someone who enters)
flier; flyer (someone who travels by air)
follower (someone who travels behind or pursues another)
alien; foreigner; noncitizen; outlander (a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country)
hosteller (a traveler who lodges in hostels)
courier; messenger (a person who carries a message)
migrant; migrator (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)
motorcyclist (a traveler who rides a motorcycle)
mover (someone who moves)
Instance hyponyms:
Marco Polo; Polo (Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324))
Derivation:
travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
travel (undergo transportation as in a vehicle)
travel (make a trip for pleasure)
travel (undertake a journey or trip)
travel (travel upon or across)
travel (travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge)
Context examples:
The coast once clear, our travellers soon sat down and dispatched what the robbers had left, with as much eagerness as if they had not expected to eat again for a month.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"What a great traveller you must have been, ma'am!" said Mrs Musgrove to Mrs Croft.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but a European.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Marianne slept through every blast; and the travellers—they had a rich reward in store, for every present inconvenience.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
For example, the cancer is seen in Reunion, but this was where European travellers would stop off on the way to India.
(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)
She was very sensitive to impressions, and it was not strange, after all, that this aura of a traveller from another world should so affect her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Remote and alien as a traveller from another planet, he snarled down their soft-spoken love-words.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The chaise of a traveller being a rare sight in Fullerton, the whole family were immediately at the window; and to have it stop at the sweep-gate was a pleasure to brighten every eye and occupy every fancy—a pleasure quite unlooked for by all but the two youngest children, a boy and girl of six and four years old, who expected a brother or sister in every carriage.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In they both came, and Mrs. Price having kindly kissed her daughter again, and commented a little on her growth, began with very natural solicitude to feel for their fatigues and wants as travellers.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
