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itinerant
[ahy-tin-er-uhnt, ih-tin-]
adjective
traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
Synonyms: , , , , ,Antonyms:characterized by such traveling.
itinerant preaching.
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: , , , , ,
noun
a person who alternates between working and wandering.
a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.
itinerant
/ ɪˈtɪnərənt, aɪ- /
adjective
itinerating
working for a short time in various places, esp as a casual labourer
noun
an itinerant worker or other person
Other 51Թ Forms
- itinerantly adverb
- unitinerant adjective
- ˈپԱԳٱ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of itinerant1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of itinerant1
Example Sentences
He was born in 1930 to a father who was an itinerant salesman and a mother who ran a small store.
Starting in McPherson’s native Canada, she follows the future evangelist through early marriages, itinerant preaching, her church in Los Angeles, her fame, her fall and what came after.
As a spiritually inclined, politically committed itinerant, John is Hester’s polar opposite, poking at her beliefs with the earnestness of a college student drunk on Howard Zinn.
Martin lacks sufficient hair to have literally tugged his forelock in Trump’s presence, but his position as supplicant — or itinerant entertainer, an Irish tradition if ever there was one — was obvious to all.
What ensued was an itinerant decade, one in which the two bounced from home to home, and for Marshall, from school to school, before they settled in Detroit.
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