# traveler

Pronunciation: US say "TRAV-ler" /ˈtɹæv.lɚ/; UK say "TRAV-luh" /ˈtɹæv.lə/

## Noun

1. A person who travels from place to place, especially one who journeys to distant lands.
   - Simple: A person who travels, especially to places far away from home.
   - _Medieval travelers along the trade routes brought back tales of distant empires._
   - _As a seasoned traveler, she packs everything into a single carry-on bag._
2. A person, particularly in the UK, who lives in a caravan (a trailer home), bus or other vehicle instead of a fixed home. *(UK)*
   - Simple: A person, mostly in the UK, whose home is a trailer, bus or other vehicle, not a house.
   - _The council set aside a site where travelers could park their caravans for the winter._
   - _As a traveler, he has lived in a converted bus for most of his adult life._

## Noun

3. A salesman who goes from place to place for a company, selling on its behalf. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A person who goes from place to place selling things for a company.
   - _The traveler for a Chicago shoe company arrived every spring with two cases of samples._
   - _Travelers for the big wholesale houses spent most of the year on the road, taking orders from small-town shops._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
- (noun) One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
- (noun) A rail or track for a sliding curtain.
- (noun) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
- (noun) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
- (noun) A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.

## Origin

Formed from travel + the suffix -er.

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