itinerant

itinerant
adj
1. itinerating, traveling, journeying, wayfaring, peregrinating, peripatetic; roving, roaming, wandering, rambling; galavanting, flitting, gadding, jetting; thumbing, backpacking.
2. unsettled, nomadic, gypsy, vagrant, migratory; living in one's hat, living out of a suitcase, having itchy feet, having sand in one's shoe; travelweary, wayworn, weather-beaten.
n
3. minister, missionary, circuit rider; judge, circuit court judge; traveling salesman, door-to-door salesman, drummer; migratory or migrant worker, Inf. dust cropper,//?/. Okie, Usually Disparaging.^ et-back; junketter, campaigner, Inf. whistle-stopper; tramp, hobo, vagrant, vagabond, beachcomber; circuit player, Inf. ski bum, Inf. tennis bum, Inf. gypsy pilot; nomad, kuchi, gypsy, bohemian, wanderer.
4. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, peregrinator, peripatetic; rambler, rover, roamer, adventurer, landloper, explorer, soldier of fortune; pilgrim, trekker, hiker, backpacker; tourist, globe-trotter, jetsetter, world traveler, Sl. W.T.; excursionist, sightseer; gadabout, bird of passage

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