# traveller

Pronunciation: UK say "TRAV-uh-luh" /ˈtɹævələ/; US say "TRAV-uh-ler" /ˈtɹævəlɚ/

## Noun

1. A person who is travelling or who often travels, especially to faraway countries.
   - Simple: A person who goes on journeys, often to places far away.
   - _A seasoned traveller, she had crossed Central Asia by train and on horseback._
   - _Travellers heading abroad this summer are advised to check their passports well before they leave._
2. A person, especially in the UK, whose home is a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a settled address.
   - Simple: A person who lives in a caravan, bus or other vehicle instead of a fixed home.
   - _A convoy of travellers in old buses and vans set up home on the common for the summer._
   - _As a traveller, she spends the winter parked on a friend's farm and moves on when spring comes._

## Noun · Traveller

3. Short for Irish Traveller: someone who belongs to Ireland's nomadic ethnic minority.
   - Simple: A member of an Irish ethnic group with its own culture and a tradition of travelling from place to place.
   - _As a Traveller, she grew up moving between halting sites in the west of Ireland._
   - _A new report found that Travellers in Ireland still face discrimination in housing and employment._

## Noun

4. A sales representative who goes round from place to place, selling on a company's behalf. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A person who goes to different places selling things for a company.
   - _He spent thirty years as a traveller in ladies' hats, covering the whole of the North of England._
   - _Travellers from the big Manchester firms called at the draper's every few weeks with their sample cases._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In Norway, a member of an ethnic minority with a tradition of nomadic life.
- (noun) In theatre and television, a rail or track along which a curtain is slid open or shut.
- (noun) A metal ring fitted loosely on part of a ship's rigging so that it can slide along it freely.
- (noun) A document that accompanies a part through manufacturing, giving instructions for the work and recording the operations completed.
- (noun) In electrical wiring, one of the pair of wires that run between the two switches of a two-way lighting circuit (a three-way circuit in American usage).
- (noun) In bridge, a score sheet that goes with a board of cards from table to table, on which the players write their results.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2, 4** — Middle English had this word in several spellings, among them traveler, travelour, travailere and travailour, and it could mean 'worker' as well as 'traveller'. It is travel with the suffix -er. Anglo-Norman and Old French had similar words, such as travailur and travailleor.
**Meaning 3** — From traveller, taken as the name of the group.

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