peripatetic
adjective
[ ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk ]
• travelling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.
• "the peripatetic nature of military life"
Similar:
nomadic,
itinerant,
travelling,
wandering,
roving,
roaming,
migrant,
migratory,
ambulatory,
unsettled,
vagabond,
vagrant,
• Aristotelian.
peripatetic
noun
• a person who travels from place to place, especially a teacher who works in more than one school or college.
• "peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools"
• an Aristotelian philosopher.
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting an Aristotelian philosopher): from Old French peripatetique, via Latin from Greek peripatētikos ‘walking up and down’, from the verb peripatein .
