Library / English Dictionary

TOURIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who travels for pleasure

Synonyms:

holidaymaker; tourer; tourist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tourist" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tourist"):

excursionist; rubberneck; sightseer; tripper (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)

Derivation:

tour (a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area)

tour (make a tour of a certain place)

tourism (the business of providing services to tourists)

touristy (visited by throngs of tourists)

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