TRAVELLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does traveller mean? 

• TRAVELLER (noun)
  The noun TRAVELLER has 1 sense:

1. a person who changes location

  Familiarity information: TRAVELLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAVELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who changes location

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

traveler; traveller

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

air traveler; air traveller (someone who travels by airplane)

journeyer; wayfarer (a traveler going on a trip)

bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer (someone who leads a wandering unsettled life)

voyager (a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea))

visitant; visitor (someone who visits)

trekker (a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country))

transient (one who stays for only a short time)

holidaymaker; tourer; tourist (someone who travels for pleasure)

bather; natator; swimmer (a person who travels through the water by swimming)

scourer (someone who travels widely and energetically)

runner (someone who travels on foot by running)

rider (a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle))

rider (a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel))

rafter; raftman; raftsman (someone who travels by raft)

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

passenger; rider (a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it)

mover (someone who moves)

absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)

arrival; arriver; comer (someone who arrives (or has arrived))

astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)

business traveler (a traveler whose expenses are paid by the business he works for)

bearer; carrier; toter (someone whose employment involves carrying something)

companion; fellow traveler; fellow traveller (a traveler who accompanies you)

entrant (someone who enters)

flier; flyer (someone who travels by air)

follower (someone who travels behind or pursues another)

alien; foreigner; noncitizen; outlander (a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country)

hosteller (a traveler who lodges in hostels)

courier; messenger (a person who carries a message)

migrant; migrator (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)

motorcyclist (a traveler who rides a motorcycle)

musher (a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team)

Instance hyponyms:

Marco Polo; Polo (Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324))

Derivation:

travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

travel (undergo transportation as in a vehicle)

travel (make a trip for pleasure)

travel (undertake a journey or trip)

travel (travel upon or across)

travel (travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge)

 Context examples 

This little group forms the real family, for they travel about together, and Henderson is a great traveller, always on the move.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are not worried with other travellers, and so even I can drive.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As they approached, the travellers observed that he was advanced in years, and that his eyes were upturned and yellow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The traveller waited and watched for some time, and at last he laughed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“See what it is to be a traveller. Right! And the amounts increase, you see, as he rose in rank.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Chance travellers might praise or pet him; but he was cold under it all, and from a too demonstrative man he would get up and walk away.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He spoke of a traveller's house on the Dover Road, where he knew he could find a clean, plain lodging for the night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)