itinerant
adjective
itin·er·ant
ī-ˈti-nə-rənt 
: traveling from place to place
especially
: covering a circuit
itinerant preacher
itinerant
noun
itinerantly
adverb
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In Latin, iter means "way" or "journey." That root was the parent of the Late Latin verb itinerari, meaning "to journey." It was that verb which ultimately gave rise to the English word for traveling types: itinerant. The linguistic grandparent, iter, also contributed to the development of other English words, including itinerary ("the route of a journey" and "the plan made for a journey") and errant ("traveling or given to traveling," as in knight-errant).
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an itinerant musician can see a lot of the world
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Greenwald is an itinerant, old-school muckraker, working with small crews, sometimes only himself, to tell stories of oppression and threats to democracy from those who often are not heard.
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Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Popular on Variety Aside from the Summit, francophonie was also feted as part of an itinerant festival held in different cities through France, notably at the Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, where performances, conferences and debates, film screenings and concerts were hosted.
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But the wandering tone and itinerant plot used here don’t seem to suggest a lack of vision so as much as a genuine endeavor to capture how complicated some psychological challenges can be.
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The findings don’t prove that all of these itinerant microbes are making people sick, nor that the next pandemic will descend from the sky, emphasizes Rodó.
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Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Popular on Variety Aside from the Summit, francophonie was also feted as part of an itinerant festival held in different cities through France, notably at the Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, where performances, conferences and debates, film screenings and concerts were hosted.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
But the wandering tone and itinerant plot used here don’t seem to suggest a lack of vision so as much as a genuine endeavor to capture how complicated some psychological challenges can be.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
The findings don’t prove that all of these itinerant microbes are making people sick, nor that the next pandemic will descend from the sky, emphasizes Rodó.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Itinerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/itinerant. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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itinerant
adjective
itin·er·ant
ī-ˈtin-ə-rənt
ə-ˈtin-
: traveling from place to place
an itinerant preacher
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