tourist

CEFRA1

/ˈtʊəɹɪst/

noun

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01
noun
A person traveling for pleasure or interest.
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noun
Extra detail
An unwelcome newcomer, or appropriator, especially one who is inflammatory or uninformed, usually to seek attention, moral approval and superiority over the established hobbyists.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Kyoto depends on the tourist industry.
Tourist shops are full of kitsch.
The group operating where we were was called the "Abu Sayyaf" and specialised in K&R (kidnap and ransom), usually of tourists who would finish up beheaded on TV.

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Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
The group operating where we were was called the "Abu Sayyaf" and specialised in K&R (kidnap and ransom), usually of tourists who would finish up beheaded on TV.
2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 94
Marla - the big tourist. The faker.
1999, David Fincher, director, Fight Club, spoken by The Narrator (Edward Norton)
This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.
1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105
The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.
2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web

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From tour + -ist. Doublet of turista.