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- Dictionaryitinerant/ʌɪˈtɪnərənt/
adjective
- 1. travelling from place to place: "itinerant traders"
noun
- 1. a person who travels from place to place.
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ITINERANT definition: 1. travelling from one place to another, usually to work for a short period: 2. a person who…. Learn more.
: traveling from place to place. especially : covering a circuit. itinerant preacher. itinerant noun. itinerantly adverb. Did you know? In Latin, iter means "way" or "journey." That root was the parent of the Late Latin verb itinerari, meaning "to journey."
An itinerant is a person who moves from place to place, typically for work, like the itinerant preacher who moves to a new community every few years.
traveling from one place to another, usually to work for a short period: an itinerant journalist / laborer / preacher. Fewer examples. The preacher had a small flock of itinerant oil workers. The farmers rely on itinerant labor. For a time, my sister was an itinerant church singer.
working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering: an itinerant farm hand. Synonyms: peripatetic, roving, unsettled, migratory, nomadic, wandering.
An itinerant is someone whose way of life involves travelling around, usually someone who is poor and homeless. [ formal ] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary .
1. traveling from place to place, esp. on a circuit, as a minister or judge. 2. working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to another place, as a physical or outdoor laborer. n. 3. a person who alternates between working and wandering. 4. a person who travels from place to place.
