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traveler

ˈtrævələr
WordNet
Herd at a fountain
Herd at a fountain
Herd at a fountain. Italian landscape with travelers and cattle resting by a fountain. To the left are two packed mules. Pendant to SK-A-338.
  1. (n) traveler
    a person who changes location
Illustrations
Italian landscape with travelers on foot, on horseback and by carriage, on a road along a water.
Italian landscape with travelers on foot, on horseback and by carriage, on a road along a water.
Stop at an inn. Travelers and horses rest during their journey at an inn among trees. To the left riders and a carriage.
Stop at an inn
A companion of Dolph Kessler with a camera stands among the crowd on the street in Shanghai. Part of Dolph Kessler's photo album with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip he undertook as secretary to Henri Deterding (director of Royal Oil) to the Dutch East Indies, Japan, China and the United States, between 1906 and 1908.
Chinese and a traveling companion in Shanghai
Wooded landscape with a view of a village. Travelers and shepherds go down a country road. On the right a farm with a well.
Wooded landscape with a view of a village. Travelers and shepherds go down a country road. On the right a farm with a well.
Wall painting to the right of the mantelpiece. Arcadian landscape with travelers on a road and to the right a seated woman with a bow and arrow. From a series of ten murals with Arcadian landscapes in the room on the garden side on the main floor of the 524 Herengracht house in Amsterdam.
Wall painting to the right of the mantelpiece. Arcadian landscape with travelers on a road and to the right a seated woman with a bow and arrow. From a series of ten murals with Arcadian landscapes in the room on the garden side on the main floor of the 524 Herengracht house in Amsterdam.
Travel group on elephants
How I found Livingstone travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa;including four months residence with Dr.Livingstone
The Seven Works of Mercy. 5: Accommodating the travelers. A man and a woman welcome pilgrims into their home. Christ is among the pilgrims. In the background, a man points two travelers to a resting place. Part of a series of seven paintings depicting the seven works of mercy.
The Seven Works of Mercy. 5: Accommodating the travelers. A man and a woman welcome pilgrims into their home. Christ is among the pilgrims. In the background, a man points two travelers to a resting place. Part of a series of seven paintings depicting the seven works of mercy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year
  1. Traveler
    A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
  2. Traveler
    (Mach) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
  3. Traveler
    (Naut) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.
  4. Traveler
    One who travels; one who has traveled much.
  5. Traveler
    (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Fish travel in schools, whales travel in pods or gams.
  1. (n) traveler
    A toiler; laborer; worker.
  2. (n) traveler
    One who or that which travels in any way; one who makes a journey, or who is on his way from place to place; a wayfarer; one who or that which gets over the ground: as, his horse is a good traveler.
  3. (n) traveler
    One who journeys to foreign hinds; one who visits strange countries and people.
  4. (n) traveler
    A person who travels for a mercantile firm to solicit orders for goods, collect accounts, and the like. Also called commercial traveler, and formerly rider.
  5. (n) traveler
    Same as swagman, 2.
  6. (n) traveler
    That which travels or traverses. Specifically— Nautical: An iron ring or thimble fitted to traverse freely on a rope, spar, or metal rod, and used for various purposes on shipboard.
Quotations
Benjamin Disraeli
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
Thomas Fuller
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley
Thomas Jefferson
Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Johnson
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
Idioms

He that travels far knows much - People who travel widely have a wide knowledge.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Written also traveler,

Usage in the news

(Chris Detrick The Salt Lake Tribune) Participants look around at travel exhibits during the Morris Murdock Travel Expo at the South Towne Expo Center Friday January 27, 2012. sltrib.com

Chris Detrick The Salt Lake Tribune Participants look around at travel exhibits during the Morris Murdock Travel Expo at the South Towne Expo Center Friday January 27, 2012. sltrib.com

When Swarna Chalasani traveled — and she traveled a lot — it was never simply a vacation. nytimes.com

The passport or wallet of even the most organized and experienced traveler can disappear or be stolen in the rush of travel. nytimes.com

Brett Snyder is the author of the consumer air travel blog The Cranky Flier and president of Cranky Concierge, an air travel assistance service. nytimes.com

Some travelers are willing to pay someone to make travel plans for them. indiana105.com

View full size Oregonian file photo Portland booming food cart scene -- and their low prices -- have proved popular with travelers in Lonely Planets latest survey of top travel destinations. oregonlive.com

It was an urgent quest and, though I was traveling at fantastic speeds, I became desperately sure that I could never travel fast enough. sfweekly.com

Courtesy of the Travel Channel Anthony Bourdain, best known for his Travel Channel program "No Reservations," travels to Syracuse today for a talk at the Landmark Theatre. blog.syracuse.com

Mrs Johnson loved traveling and she and her husband spent more than four years traveling the states in their RV. paysonroundup.com

The months of June and July will see the opening of seven new Pilot Flying J travel centers and travel plazas, the company announced. motorhomemagazine.com

Welcome, Travelers, to the Poetry Lane on the Black Information Highway and The Mid-South Tribune ONLINE Welcome, Travelers, to the 21st Century Underground Railroad. blackinformationhighway.com

Texas Highways Online, a Travel Magazine of Texas featuring Texas roadtrips, Texas Online subscriptions, Texas Travel tips, Texas recipes, Texas Gifts and much more. texashighways.com

If so, you were part of the record 1 billion people who traveled (or will travel before the year is up) across an international border as a tourist in 2012, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. boston.com

The Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Association was formed in 1964 to develop North Alabama's travel industry and market the region to the traveling public. bassmaster.com

Usage in scientific papers

In uncongested situations, PA predicts faster travel than QM which predicts faster travel than TR.
The dynamics of iterated transportation simulations

The value of this index comes from the fact that it can be related to geometric information about the phase portrait of the traveling-wave ODE, which fact ultimately derives from the correspondence at λ = 0 between the eigenvalue equation and the linearized traveling-wave ODE.
A stability index for detonation waves in Majda's model for reacting flow

This explains why the excited waves by the RL instability have the phase velocity of ǫδT vth , and travel one way direction rising up the temperature gradient and the waves can not travel in the direction of the perpendicular to the temperature gradient.
A Spontaneous Generation of the Magnetic Field and Suppression of the Heat Conduction in Cold Fronts

In the presence of the field, the particle traveled more distance between two spatial points, but with a velocity (of magnitude) always greater than v∞ i.e. it traveled greater path with a greater velocity.
Gravitational Lensing In Case of Massive Particles

More precisely, if we require the particle to travel from x to y “instantaneously,” then it travels along the geodesic through zi with probability µ{zi}.
The small time asymptotics of the heat kernel at the cut locus

Usage in literature

Dr. Possum told me to travel, and have adventures, and I've had quite a few already. "Uncle Wiggily's Adventures" by Howard R. Garis

Then I could go back home and buy an automobile for myself to ride around in, and my travels would be over. "Uncle Wiggily's Travels" by Howard R. Garis

Of course Canada and things Canadian are utterly beneath the notice of our traveller. "The Great Lone Land" by W. F. Butler

I was traveling with a huge valise. "Children of the Market Place" by Edgar Lee Masters

Mr. Henry had traveled several days with the Indians going to Fort Niagara to make peace. "Stories of American Life and Adventure" by Edward Eggleston

They must 'a' traveled all night. "In the Days of Poor Richard" by Irving Bacheller

Their clothing was old, worn and travel-stained. "For Woman's Love" by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

Distance travelled about thirty miles. "Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria" by William Landsborough

For four days they travelled over a barren country, where not one drop of water could be found. "The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself" by De Witt C. Peters

How beautifully fresh the country looked as we travelled southward in Northern Sonora! "Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)" by Carl Lumholtz

Usage in poetry
These and a thousand other tales
The traveller told, and welcome found;
These were the simple tales went round
The happy circles in the vales.
"The Meetings Of The Flowers" by Denis Florence MacCarthy
“I stoop: within ’tis dark and still;
But shadowy paths methinks there be,
And lead they far into the hill?”
“Traveller, come and see.”
"Contrasted Songs: Song Of The Going Away" by Jean Ingelow Author object (347)
I think if I lay dying in some land
Where Ireland is no more than just a name,
My soul would travel back to find that strand
From whence it came.
"The Harbour" by Winifred Mary Letts
"For gold could Memory be bought,
What treasures would she not be worth?
If from afar she could be brought,
I'd travel for her through the earth!"
"Memory" by Charles Lamb Author object (102)
The wayside travellers, as they pass,
Mark the gray disk of clouded glass;
And the dull blankness seems, perchance,
Folly to their wise ignorance.
"The Pressed Gentian" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
'Wha's this travels cauld and hungry,
Wi' young bairns sae late at e'en?
Beggars!' cried the voice, mair angry,
'Beggars! wi' their brats, I ween.'
"The Waes O' War : Or The Upshot Of The History O' Will And Jean. In Four Parts" by Hector MacNeill