Word Study
Itinerant
CIDE DICTIONARY
Itinerant, a. [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. [1913 Webster]
"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." [1913 Webster]
Itinerant, a.
One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. [1913 Webster]
"Glad to turn itinerant,
To stroll and teach from town to town." [1913 Webster]
To stroll and teach from town to town." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Itinerant, adj. & n.
--adj. travelling from place to place.
--n. an itinerant person; a tramp.
--adj. travelling from place to place.
--n. an itinerant person; a tramp.
Idiom
itinerant judge (or minister etc.) a judge, minister, etc. travelling within a circuit.
Derivative
itineracy n. itinerancy n.
Etymology
LL itinerari travel f. L iter itiner- journey
THESAURUS
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, wayfaringROGET THESAURUS
Itinerant
Journey
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.Traveler
N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.For further exploring for "Itinerant" in Webster Dictionary Online