traveller
UK/ˈtɹævələ//ˈtɹævəlɚ/
traveller noun: one who travels, especially to distant lands. Also the alternative letter-case form of Traveller.
Noun (1)
traveller (plural travellers)
- 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
- This Book will make a Travailer of thee, / If by its Counſel thou wilt ruled be; / It will direct thee to the Holy Land, / If thou wilt its Directions understand: / Yea, it will make the ſloathful, active be; / The Blind alſo, delightful things to ſee.1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC
- A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
- Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
- A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
- Synonyms:
- router
- One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
- A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
- A rail or track for a sliding curtain.
- That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […]1977, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews, volumes 38-39, page 134
- A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
- At the conclusion of play, the scores from all the travelers get entered into a computer.2008, David Galt, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Bridge, →ISBN, page 263
- A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.
- Nowhere else in the world had I seen such gigantic measures of liquor poured, such widespread enthusiasm for Bloodies and Mimosas on weekend mornings, or such firm insistence on giving sixteen-ounce Styrofoam cups loaded with iced liquor to guests leaving a party, so they might have a "traveler"...2015, Richard Grant, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
- Part of the apparatus in various fiber spinning processes (for spinning fiber to thread or yarn); several types exist.
- ring traveler
- ring traveller
Noun (2) capitalized: Traveller
Traveller (plural Travellers)
- Ellipsis of Irish Traveller, a member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland.
- The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”.2024 March 3, Rory Carroll, “‘A clash of cultures’: Irish opinion split over Travellers’ elaborate headstones”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- A member of a nomadic ethnic minority in Norway, formerly consisting of two clans: those of Romani descent ("the Greater Travellers", who spoke Romani Traveller Norwegian) and those of Norwegian descent (who spoke a cant called Rodi).
Also used as
traveller is also the alternative letter-case form of Traveller.
traveller meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
traveller in Hindi
- one who travels
- गामी gāmī, मुसाफ़िर musāfir, यात्री yātrī
traveller in Urdu
- one who travels
- مُسافِر musāfir, یاتْری yātrī, سَیَّاح sayyāh
traveller in Bengali
- one who travels
- মুসাফির musafir, রাহী rahī
traveller in Telugu
- one who travels
- ప్రయాణికుడు prayāṇikuḍu
More languagesFewer languages
- traveller in Odia
- ଭ୍ରମଣକାରୀ
- traveller in Pashto
- يونی yunay, مسافر mosāfer, سياح sayāh
- traveller in Tagalog
- manlalakbay
- traveller in Arabic
- مُسَافِر musāfir, مُسَافِرَة musāfira, سَائِح sāʔiḥ, سَيَّاح sayyāḥ
- traveller in Malay
- perantau
- traveller in Thai
- นักเดินทาง nák-dəən-taang, ผู้เดินทาง pûu-dəən-taang
- traveller in Vietnamese
- người đi du lịch
- traveller in Myanmar
- ခရီးသည် hka.ri:sany
Synonyms of traveller
Forms of traveller
| plural | travellers |
|---|---|
| alternative US | traveler |
| plural | Travellers |
| alternative form | Traveler |
Origin of traveller
From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.
From traveller.
Words formed from traveller
Phrases with traveller
Questions about traveller
- What does traveller mean?
- Traveller means one who travels, especially to distant lands.
- What is traveller in Hindi?
- Traveller in Hindi is गामी (gāmī), मुसाफ़िर (musāfir), यात्री (yātrī). See Traveller meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is traveller?
- Traveller is a noun.
- How do you pronounce traveller?
- Traveller is pronounced /ˈtɹævələ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of traveller?
- The plural of traveller is travellers.
Words near traveller in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: traveller (page history and authors); Traveller (page history and authors); traveller (Odia, 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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