travellour
travellour is the obsolete form of traveller.
Meaning of traveller
Noun
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
- 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.
Forms of travellour
| plural | travellours |
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Questions about travellour
- What is travellour the obsolete form of?
- Travellour is the obsolete form of traveller.
Words near travellour in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: travellour (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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