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circumambulator

circumambulator noun: someone who walks around something.

Noun

circumambulator (plural circumambulators)

  1. Someone who walks around something.
    • Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.1786, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson
    • TUAPHOLL. A term used by the Druids to designate an unhallowed circumambulation around the sacred cairn, or altar, the movement being against the sun, that is, from west to east by the north, the cairn being on the left hand of the circumambulator.1882, Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry

Forms of circumambulator

pluralcircumambulators

Origin of circumambulator

Latin

Questions about circumambulator

What does circumambulator mean?
Circumambulator means someone who walks around something.
What part of speech is circumambulator?
Circumambulator is a noun.
What is the plural of circumambulator?
The plural of circumambulator is circumambulators.

Words near circumambulator in the dictionary

  1. circumambulated
  2. circumambulates
  3. circumambulating
  4. circumambulation
  5. circumambulations
  6. circumambulator
  7. circumambulators
  8. circumambulatory
  9. circumanal
  10. circumannual
  11. circumantennal

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