Tourist
['tʊərɪst] or ['tʊrɪst]
Definition
(n.) One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Traveller, voyager, wayfarer, pilgrim.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are a tourist, denotes that you will engage in some pleasurable affair which will take you away from your usual residence. To see tourists, indicates brisk but unsettled business and anxiety in love.
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Examples
- Her picturesque form no longer looms above the desert of the Dead Sea to remind the tourist of the doom that fell upon the lost cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These are the people that make life a burthen to the tourist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The old tourist is far away on his wanderings, now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Versailles, under a score of names, is starred in every volume of B?deker, and the tourist gapes in their palaces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Unhappily a social quality, nay, almost a tourist quality, was introduced into the world settlement by these ladies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To-day this form of camera is a part of the luggage of every tourist, traveler, scientist, and dilletante. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When I think how I have been swindled by books of Oriental travel, I want a tourist for breakfast. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A certain set of words and phrases, as much belonging to tourists as the College and the Snuggery belonged to the jail, was always in their mouths. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is one of the natural wonders of the southern hemisphere and is much visited by tourists traveling through New Zealand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We are tourists and we want to do the winter sport. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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