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traveler

traveler is the US standard spelling of traveller.

Meaning of traveller

Noun

traveller (plural travellers)

  1. One who travels, especially to distant lands.
    • They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371
  2. (dated) A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
  3. (UK) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
  4. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
    Synonyms:
    router
  5. One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
  6. A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.

See all 11 meanings of traveller

Forms of traveler

pluraltravelers
alternative Commonwealthtraveller

Origin of traveler

From travel + -er.

Words formed from traveler

Phrases with traveler

Questions about traveler

What is traveler the US standard spelling of?
Traveler is the US standard spelling of traveller.

Words near traveler in the dictionary

  1. travelcards
  2. traveldom
  3. traveled
  4. traveled light
  5. traveledst
  6. traveler
  7. traveler hook
  8. traveler hooks
  9. traveler palm
  10. traveler palms
  11. traveler's check

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Adapted from Wiktionary: traveler (page history and authors); traveller (page history and authors). 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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