English Online Dictionary. What means traveller? What does traveller mean?
English
Alternative forms
- traveler (US)
Etymology
From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹævələ/, /ˈtɹævlə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹævəlɚ/, /ˈtɹævl̩ɚ/
Noun
traveller (plural travellers)
- One who travels, especially to distant lands.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:traveller.
- (dated) A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
- (British) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
- (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Traveller
- A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
- (electrical engineering) One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
- (nautical) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
- (television, theater) A rail or track for a sliding curtain.
- (bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
- (US, Mississippi Delta) A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- backpacker
- Irish Traveller
- tourist
- voyager