Definitions for itinerant

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itinerant i·tin·er·ant

Spelling: [ahy-tin-er-uh nt, ih-tin-]

IPA: /aɪˈtɪn ər ənt, ɪˈtɪn-/

Itinerant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in itinerant (aeiinnrtt).

Definitions for itinerant

noun

1. a person who alternates between working and wandering.
2. a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.

adjective

1. traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
2. characterized by such traveling:
3. working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering:

Origin of itinerant

1560-70; Late Latin itinerant- (stem of itinerāns), present participle of itinerārī to journey, equivalent to itiner- (stem of iter) journey (see iter) + -ant-

Examples for itinerant

How mysterious was the providence which induced me to enter the itinerant ministry.

From there, Leo lived an itinerant childhood, eventually winding up in England.

After a few years he quitted his cellar, and became an itinerant dealer in hair.

For miles we only meet two road-menders and an itinerant glazier.

This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.

Some of these itinerant writing craftsmen had professional fame.

It's a memoir of growing up as the son of an itinerant Arabist foreign service officer.

Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.

Therefore let no man be an itinerant mendicant and he will not be beset with pain.

In the meantime, he continued his itinerant existence, sometimes living for months in his Airstream trailer with no phone.