# itinerant

Pronunciation: US say "y-TIN-er-uhnt" /aɪˈtɪnɚənt/; UK say "y-TIN-uh-ruhnt" /aɪˈtɪnəɹənt/

## Adjective

1. Habitually traveling from place to place rather than staying in one.
   - Simple: Always moving from place to place, not staying in one place for long.
   - _An itinerant preacher held services in a different town each Sunday._
   - _Many of the farm's workers were itinerant laborers who followed the harvest north._

## Noun

2. Someone who travels around, moving on from one place to the next.
   - Simple: A person who moves from place to place.
   - _He lived as an itinerant for years, working wherever he could find a job._
   - _The shelter offered beds to itinerants passing through town._

## Noun

3. A member of the Irish Traveler community, whether the person still travels or has settled in one place. *(dated, Ireland)*
   - Simple: A member of the Irish Traveler community, even one who now lives in one place.
   - _Government reports in the 1960s described the Travelers living by Irish roadsides as itinerants._
   - _Her grandmother remembered being called an itinerant by officials long after the family settled in Galway._

## Origin

Itineror was a Late Latin verb meaning "travel," and its present participle itinerantem is the source. Itinerate and itinerary are related words.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/itinerant (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).