tourist
/ˈtʊəɹɪst/
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British/ˈtoːɹɪst/
tourist noun: someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business; a leisure visitor.
Noun
tourist (plural tourists)
- Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business; a leisure visitor.
- Tourist shops are full of kitsch.
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- One who only has a superficial interest in something.
- Marla - the big tourist. The faker.1999, David Fincher, director, Fight Club, spoken by The Narrator (Edward Norton)
- Synonyms:
- dilettante, casual
- An unwelcome newcomer, or appropriator, especially one who is inflammatory or uninformed, usually to seek attention, moral approval and superiority over the established hobbyists.
- A member of the visiting team in a match.
- A guest user on a computer system.
- This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105
- The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web
Verb
tourist (third-person singular simple present tourists, present participle touristing, simple past and past participle touristed)
- To travel as a tourist.
- “You can’t go touristing anymore like you used to, but weekends away — traditionally crammed into sneaking out of work slightly early on a Friday in a dash to have some repose — now mean heading out on a Wednesday night, logging on to work and coming back Monday night,” said Tom Caton, the...2020 November 4, Sarah Firshein, “Forget Long Weekends: During the Pandemic It’s All About Short Weeks”, in The New York Times
tourist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tourist in Hindi
- someone who travels for pleasure
- पर्यटक paryaṭak, टूरिस्ट ṭūrisṭ
tourist in Tamil
- சுற்றுலாப் பயணி
tourist in Marathi
- someone who travels for pleasure
- पर्यटक paryaṭak
tourist in Urdu
- someone who travels for pleasure
- سَیَّاح sayyāh, ٹُورِسْٹ ṭūrisṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- tourist in Bengali
- পর্যটক porjoṭok
- tourist in Telugu
- పర్యాటకుడు, టూరిస్ట్
- tourist in Malayalam
- വിനോദസഞ്ചാരി, പര്യടനക്കാരൻ, ദേശസഞ്ചാരി
- tourist in Kannada
- ಪ್ರವಾಸಿ, ಯಾತ್ರಿಕ, ಯಾತ್ರಿ
- tourist in Punjabi
- ਟੂਰਿਸਟ
- tourist in Gujarati
- પ્રવાસી
- tourist in Sinhala
- සංචාරක saṁcāraka
- tourist in Nepali
- पर्यटक
- tourist in Pashto
- سياح sayāh, ټوريسټ ṭorísṭ
- tourist in Tagalog
- turista
- tourist in Arabic
- سَائِح sāʔiḥ, سَائِحَة sāʔiḥa
- tourist in Malay
- pelancong
- tourist in Indonesian
- turis, wisatawan
- tourist in Thai
- นักท่องเที่ยว nák-tɔ̂ng-tîao
- tourist in Vietnamese
- khách du lịch
- tourist in Myanmar
- ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသည် kambhahlany.hka.ri:sany, ခရီးသည် hka.ri:sany, တူးရစ် tu:rac, တိုရစ် tuirac
Examples of tourist in a sentence
- On sunny days the beaches draw armies of tourists of all kinds.
- The guide was able to lead the tourists through the jungle safely.
- Tourist guides often carry umbrellas so that they stand out in a crowd.
Synonyms of tourist
Forms of tourist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tourists |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tourists |
| present participle | touristing |
| past participle | touristed |
| past | touristed |
Origin of tourist
From tour + -ist. Doublet of turista.
Words formed from tourist
- abortion tourist
- agritourist
- alcotourist
- antitourist
- apitourist
- architourist
- astrotourist
- avitourist
- bicycle tourist
- birth tourist
- class tourist
- cybertourist
- dark tourist
- disaster tourist
- ecotourist
- enotourist
- ethnotourist
- gastrotourist
- geotourist
- grief tourist
- nontourist
- posttourist
- romance tourist
- sex tourist
- six bob a day tourist
- space tourist
- suicide tourist
- sustainable tourist
- ten-pound tourist
- ten pound tourist
- tourist agency
- tourist area
- tourist attraction
- tourist card
- tourist class
- tourist court
- tourist destination
- touristdom
- tourist guide
- tourist highway
- tourist home
- touristic
- touristification
- touristify
- touristlike
- tourist office
- tourist-oriented destination sign
- tourist police
- touristry
- touristscape
- tourist trap
- tourist trappy
- tourist tree
- tourist visa
- touristy
- touron
- touronaut
- voluntourist
Phrases with tourist
- Grand Tourist
- tourist areas
- tourist cards
- tourist traps
- tourist trees
- tourist visas
- tourist courts
- tourist guides
- tourist offices
- tourist agencies
- tourist highways
- tourist attractions
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Words that rhyme with tourist
Questions about tourist
- What does tourist mean?
- Tourist means someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business; a leisure visitor.
- What is tourist in Hindi?
- Tourist in Hindi is पर्यटक (paryaṭak), टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ). See Tourist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tourist?
- Tourist can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tourist?
- Tourist is pronounced /ˈtʊəɹɪst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tourist?
- The plural of tourist is tourists.
Words near tourist in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tourist (page history and authors); tourist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tourist (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tourist (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tourist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tourist (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tourist (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tourist (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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