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Definition of Itinerant
1. Noun. A laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment. "Itinerant traders"
Generic synonyms: Jack, Laborer, Labourer, Manual Laborer
Specialized synonyms: Swagger, Swaggie, Swagman, Tinker
2. Adjective. Traveling from place to place to work. "An itinerant judge"
Definition of Itinerant
1. a. Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
2. a. One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.
Definition of Itinerant
1. Adjective. Habitually travelling from place to place. ¹
2. Noun. One who travels from place to place. ¹
3. Noun. (Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Itinerant
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Itinerant
Literary usage of Itinerant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"The learned judge now stated, with reference to the facts, that it might have
been prudent for the itinerant, which, in a foggy night, was under a press of ..."
2. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1906)
"Writ for the Assembling of the County Court before the Judges itinerant (April,
1231. Latin text, Stubbs, SC 358. Translation by Editors. 2 Stubbs, 214. ..."
3. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"1 As to the moder n history of the before the itinerant justices, see the ancient
county court, see Freeman, agenda of the year 1194, Hoveden, vol. Norm. ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"The learned judge now stated, with reference to the facts, that it might have
been prudent for the itinerant, which, in a foggy night, was under a press of ..."
5. Biographia juridica. A biographical dictionary of the judges of England from by Edward Foss (1870)
"In 9 Henry III., 1225, he was appointed one of the justices itinerant for
Somersetshire, in which county also he had property. No other mention is made of ..."
6. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"The Church authorities were deeply enraged by this itinerant propagandism of
heresy, and Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury, calls attention " to certain ..."
7. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America by Abel Stevens (1866)
"William Watters, the first native Methodist itinerant—His early Life —His
Conversion—He becomes an itinerant — Robert Williams — Eev. ..."
8. A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1902)
"The itinerant Justices Revived.— To carry out this system Henry renewed his
grandfather's experiment of sending members of the Curia Regis as itinerant ..."
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