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| Main Entry: | wanderer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who travels aimlessly |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, bum, drifter, explorer, gad*, gadabout, gypsy, itinerant, nomad, pilgrim, ranger, rover, stray, stroller, traveler, vagabond, vagrant, beachcomber, floater, gallivanter, globe-trotter, meanderer, rambler, roamer, rolling stone, straggler, voyager |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adventurer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who takes risks |
| Synonyms: | charlatan, daredevil, entrepreneur, explorer, gambler, globetrotter, hero, heroine, madcap, mercenary, opportunist, pioneer, pirate, romantic, speculator, swashbuckler, traveler, wanderer, fortune-hunter, stunt person, venturer, voyager |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | émigré, alien, colonist, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, departer, evacuee, migrator |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | native, nationalist |
| Main Entry: | hobo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homeless person |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bum, derelict, drifter, migrant worker, street person, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wino |
| Main Entry: | loafer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is idle, lazy |
| Synonyms: | beachcomber, deadbeat, do-nothing, good-for-nothing*, goof-off, idler, lazybones, lounger, malingerer, ne'er-do-well, shirker, slacker, slouch, sluggard, sponger, wanderer, waster, wastrel |
| Antonyms: | hard worker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | migrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who moves to a foreign place |
| Synonyms: | drifter, emigrant, expatriate, gypsy, immigrant, itinerant, nomad, rover, tinker, transient, traveler, vagrant, wanderer, departer, evacuee, migrator, mover |
| Main Entry: | nomad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who wanders from place to place |
| Synonyms: | hobo, itinerant, migrant, pilgrim, rover, vagabond, wanderer, wayfarer, rambler, roamer |
| Main Entry: | passenger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who rides in vehicle conducted by another |
| Synonyms: | commuter, customer, fare*, patron, pilgrim, rider, tourist, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, excursionist, hitchhiker, voyager |
| Antonyms: | driver |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stranger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unfamiliar |
| Synonyms: | alien, drifter, foreigner, guest, immigrant, interloper, intruder, migrant, newcomer, outsider, squatter, transient, unknown, visitor, wanderer, foreign body, incomer, itinerant person, migratory worker, new arrival, out-of-stater, outcomer, outlander, party crasher, perfect stranger, uninvited person, unknown person |
| Antonyms: | acquaintance, friend, local, native |
| Main Entry: | traveler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who journeys |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, bum*, commuter, displaced person, drifter, explorer, gadabout*, globetrotter, gypsy, hobo, itinerant, migrant, navigator, nomad, passenger, peddler, pilgrim, rover, sailor, seafarer, sightseer, tourist, tramp, truant, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wayfarer, barnstormer, excursionist, expeditionist, floater, haj, hiker, jet-setter, journeyer, junketer, rambler, roamer, transmigrant, trekker, tripper, trouper, voyager |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leads an unsettled life; traveler |
| Synonyms: | explorer, gypsy, pilgrim, pioneer, rover, tourist, wanderer, wayfarer, haji, pathfinder, rambler, trailblazer, trekker |
| Antonyms: | inhabitant |
| Main Entry: | vagrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person with no permanent home and often with no means of support |
| Synonyms: | drifter, itinerant, street person, transient, wanderer, floater, homeless person, rolling stone |
| Main Entry: | wayfarer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traveler |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, bum*, drifter, explorer, gadabout*, gypsy, hobo, itinerant, nomad, peddler, pilgrim, rover, vagabond, vagrant, walker, wanderer, barnstormer, excursionist, globe-trotter, hiker, hitchhiker, journeyer, rambler, roamer, trekker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pilgrim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wayfarer |
| Synonyms: | explorer, pioneer, traveler, wanderer, sojourner |
| Main Entry: | sightseer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tourist |
| Synonyms: | observer, traveler, visitor, wanderer, vacationist, voyager |
| Main Entry: | tramp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is poor, desperate |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bum, derelict, down-and-out*, drifter, hobo, loafer, outcast, panhandler, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, floater, hitchhiker, homeless person |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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