tourist

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  1. noun One who travels for pleasure.

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  • Doing so immediately identifies you as a tourist, and you will be forced to spend your entire visit at —  MSDN Blogs
  • He paid for what's known as a tourist-oriented directional sign or TODS, those blue signs with logos and white lettering familiar to motorists. —  News from www.nptelegraph.com
  • For the tourist, there are a number of options for tourism in Kerala. —  BeanRocket Blog Communities Lastest Posts
  • For a tourist, the Norwegian pop star certainly has the capital's number Are CSS the model pan-global pop concern? asks Caspar Llewellyn Smith —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • Several years ago Branson passed a tourist tax, as if the tourist was a special problem they were tolerating. —  SmartMoney.com
 

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visitor ·  traveller ·  travelers ·  passenger ·  reporter ·  pilgrim ·  trader ·  scientist ·  refugee ·  student ·  sailor ·  civilian

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tourist:   tourists
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/ˈturɪst/
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