ITINERARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does itinerary mean? 

• ITINERARY (noun)
  The noun ITINERARY has 3 senses:

1. an established line of travel or access

2. a guidebook for travelers

3. a proposed route of travel

  Familiarity information: ITINERARY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ITINERARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An established line of travel or access

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

itinerary; path; route

Hypernyms ("itinerary" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "itinerary"):

feeder line (a branching path off of a main transportation line (especially an airline))

trade route (a route followed by traders (usually in caravans))

direction; way (a line leading to a place or point)

fairway (the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters)

flyway; migration route (the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate)

line of fire (the path of a missile discharged from a firearm)

supply line; supply route (a route over which supplies can be delivered)

crosscut (a diagonal path)

circuit (an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to)

beeline (the most direct route)

paper round; paper route (the route taken when delivering newspapers every day)

electron orbit; orbit (the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom)

celestial orbit; orbit (the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another)

line of march (the route along which a column advances)

line of flight (the path along which a freely moving object travels through the air)

bus route (the route regularly followed by a passenger bus)

beat; round (a regular route for a sentry or policeman)

flight path (the path of a rocket or projectile or aircraft through the air)

approach pattern; pattern; traffic pattern (the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport)

air lane; airway; flight path; skyway (a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another)

data track; track ((computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data)

main line (the principal route of a transportation system)

Instance hyponyms:

Northwest Passage (a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A guidebook for travelers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

itinerary; travel guidebook

Hypernyms ("itinerary" is a kind of...):

guide; guidebook (something that offers basic information or instruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "itinerary"):

baedeker (any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A proposed route of travel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

itinerary; travel plan

Hypernyms ("itinerary" is a kind of...):

plan of action (a plan for actively doing something)