Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor.
- n. One who travels from place to place.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Traveling from place to place; wandering; not settled; strolling; specifically, going from place to place, especially on a circuit, in the discharge of duty: as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant judge.
- n. One who travels from place to place; a traveler; a wanderer; specifically, one who travels from place to place, especially on a circuit, in the discharge of duty or the pursuit of business, as an itinerant judge or preacher, or a strolling actor.
Wiktionary
- adj. Habitually travelling from place to place.
- n. One who travels from place to place.
- n. Ireland a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled
- adj. One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. traveling from place to place to work
- n. a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
Etymologies
- From itinerāns, present active participle of itineror ("I travel"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin itinerāns, itinerant-, present participle of itinerārī, to travel, from Latin iter, itiner-, journey; see ei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One definition of itinerant is - traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty.”
“The difference between the regular trader and the _coureur des bois_, (as the French call the itinerant or peddling traders,) with respect to the sale of spirits, is here, as it always has been, fixed and permanent, and growing out of the nature of their trade.”
“Mr. Wang is the kind of itinerant worker found in China by the millions, wandering from city to city in these boom years, and so it was chance that brought him home two days before the quake.”
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“Is there a threshold below which we would have to judge Mark "pure fiction," even if a historical person named Jesus existed, had some kind of itinerant ministry in Galilee and the surrounding area, and was crucified in Jerusalem under Pilate?”
“He noted that the Bible was full of people on the move, including Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus — and that his office is tasked with dealing with all "itinerant" people — from refugees to prostitutes, truck drivers to the homeless.”
“Before his time, those kind of itinerant authors, called troubadours or romanciers, were a species of madmen who attracted the admiration of fools.”
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“I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune.”
“They were "itinerant," going on foot from place to place, and wearing coarse robes tied round the waist with a rope.”
“And again, an "itinerant" came along with a machine known as a lung-tester; one fair-haired, slender youth, having fears he would fall below the average, made so great an effort as seriously to impair his health for the time.”
“Since the storm, the city -- long a magnet for escapists and hipsters -- had also been attracting a new kind of itinerant idealist.”
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reallifepixel Early Methodist preachers Jul 28, 2009
blame It's just occurred to me that this probably shares a root with "itinerary." Dec 5, 2006