ITINERANT


Meaning of ITINERANT in English

— itinerantly , adv.

/uy tin"euhr euhnt, i tin"-/ , adj.

1. traveling from place to place, esp. on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.

2. characterized by such traveling: itinerant preaching.

3. 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.

n.

4. a person who alternates between working and wandering.

5. a person who travels from place to place, esp. for duty or business.

[ 1560-70; itinerant- (s. of itinerans ), prp. of itinerari to journey, equiv. to itiner- (s. of iter ) journey (see ITER) + -ant- -ANT ]

Syn. 1, 3. wandering, nomadic, migratory, unsettled, roving, roaming; peripatetic.

Ant. 1. settled.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .