traveler, traveller
(noun) a person who changes location
Source: WordNet® 3.1
traveler (plural travelers)
American standard spelling of traveller.
• retravel
Source: Wiktionary
Trav"el*er, n. Etym: [Written also traveler.]
1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.
2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
3. (Mach.)
Definition: A traveling crane. See under Crane.
4. (Spinning)
Definition: The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
5. (Naut.)
Definition: An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers.
– Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
