Itinerant Meaning
/aɪˈtɪnɚənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHabitually travelling from place to place.
nounOne who travels from place to place.
Sentence Examples
Vagabonds are some of the most itinerant people out there.
Tom is an itinerant preacher.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ musician traveled through many different countries to perform every year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ workers move from one farm to another to find work during the busy harvest season.
Word Origin & History
From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”), from itiner-. By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ant.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made."
— 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
"most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher."
— 1971, Richard Austin King, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Readings for an Introduction to Psychology:
"The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry."
— 2010, Craig Ott, Gene Wilson, Global Church Planting:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ musician traveled through many different countries to perform every year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ workers move from one farm to another to find work during the busy harvest season.