viator
UK/vʌɪˈeɪtə/US/vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/
viator noun: a wayfarer, traveler.
Noun
viator (plural viators or viatores)
- A wayfarer, traveler.
- After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a...1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28
- [The] notion of man as viator in search of perfection in history thus did not function as a legitimating idea for progress., University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Viator, Univ of California Press, page 25
- An apparitor, a summoner: a minor Roman official.
- The apparitor tribuni was a viator, whose most important function was that of arrest.1882, Titus Livius, Historiarum Romanarum quæ supersunt liber secundus, ed. by H. Belcher, page 198
- A person who is subject to a viatical insurance policy or a viatical settlement.
- […] the viators are residents of different states, the viatical settlement […]2016, Howard M. Friedman, Anderson's Ohio Annotated Securities Law Handbook, 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, →ISBN
- Viatical settlement providers purchase the policies from individual viators. Once purchased, these viatical settlement providers typically sell […]2020, Deborah Bouchoux, Christine Sgarlata Chung, Business Organizations Law in Focus, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 711
Proper noun capitalized: Viator
Viator (countable and uncountable, plural Viators)
- A municipality in Andalusia, Spain.
- A surname.
viator meaning in Urdu
viator in Urdu
- مسافر, راہگیر
Forms of viator
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | viators |
| plural | viatores |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Viators |
Origin of viator
Borrowed from Latin viātor (“traveler”).
Words that rhyme with viator
- translator
- alligator
- vibrator
- freighter
- terminator
- waiter
- crater
- curator
- gaiter
- incubator
- plater
- pulsator
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- skater
- cater
- collator
- creator
- dictator
- equator
- escalator
- greater
- later
- relator
- rotator
- collimator
- dilator
- excavator
- frater
- gator
- inflater
- locator
- narrator
- palpator
- saeter
- slater
- traitor
- awaiter
- baiter
- citator
- corrugator
- dater
- deflator
- dominator
- emasculator
- glossator
- gyrator
- hater
- hydrator
- legator
- levator
- mandator
- mater
- migrator
- negator
- nitrator
- plaiter
- procreator
- spectator
- tater
- titrator
- 'mater
Questions about viator
- What does viator mean?
- Viator means a wayfarer, traveler.
- What is viator in Urdu?
- Viator in Urdu is مسافر, راہگیر. See Viator meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is viator?
- Viator can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce viator?
- Viator is pronounced /vaɪˈeɪt.əɹ/ (US).
- What is the plural of viator?
- The plural of viator is viators.
Words near viator in the dictionary
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