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itinerant adjective [ ɪˈtɪn(ə)r(ə)nt ]

• travelling from place to place.
• "itinerant traders"
Similar: travelling, peripatetic, wandering, wayfaring, roving, roaming, rambling, touring, nomadic, gypsy, migrant, migratory, ambulatory, vagrant, vagabond, homeless, of no fixed address/abode, displaced, footloose, rootless, drifting, floating, unsettled, restless, globetrotting, jet-setting, errant,
Opposite: sedentary, settled,

itinerant noun

• a person who travels from place to place.
Similar: traveller, wanderer, wayfarer, roamer, rover, nomad, gypsy, Bedouin, migrant, transient, drifter, vagabond, vagrant, tramp, refugee, displaced person, DP, homeless person, streety, bird of passage,
Origin: late 16th century (used to describe a judge travelling on a circuit): from late Latin itinerant- ‘travelling’, from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner- ‘journey, road’.


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