traveler
Other forms: travelers
If you take frequent trips across the country or around the world, you are a traveler. Take a plane to Mexico, and all the other passengers are travelers, just like you.
Some people travel often, for work or fun, and they are travelers. Even if you're leaving your hometown for the very first time, you're considered a traveler while you are traveling. The trick to this word is that it sounds like it should have two Ls (and in Canada and the U.K., it's spelled traveller), but in the U.S. there's only one.
Definitions of traveler
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a person who changes locationsynonyms: travellerexamples:Marco PoloVenetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)types:absenteeone that is absent or not in residencebusiness travelera traveler whose expenses are paid by the business he works forentrantsomeone who entersfollowersomeone who travels behind or pursues anotheralien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlandera person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your countryhostellera traveler who lodges in hostelsmotorcyclista traveler who rides a motorcyclemoversomeone who movesmushera traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog teampassenger, ridera traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) but not operating itridera traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)ridera traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)runnersomeone who travels on foot by runningscourersomeone who travels widely and energeticallytransientone who stays for only a short timetrekkera traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country)voyagera traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)advancersomeone who advancesascendersomeone who ascendsau paira young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light houseworkboulevardiera visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris)coastersomeone who coastscommutersomeone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a citydefaultersomeone who fails to make a required appearance in courtdescendersomeone who descendsdispatch ridera messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)early birda person who arrives early before others doevacueea person who has been evacuated from a dangerous placefarea paying (taxi) passengerfloatera swimmer who floats in the watergringoa Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)hang glidera rider of a hang gliderhitchhikera person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehiclesimmigranta person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle thereinterloper, intruder, trespassersomeone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permissionjaywalkera reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegallyjoggersomeone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)latecomersomeone who arrives latelungersomeone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing)bearera messenger who bears or presentsmetica foreigner who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek citynewcomera recent arrivalnomada member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasonsnondrivera person who is not a driverperipatetica person who walks from place to placepilgrimsomeone who journeys in foreign landsprocess-serversomeone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendantpullersomeone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himselframblera person who takes long walks in the countryrunnera person who is employed to deliver messages or documentsrushersomeone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territoryscramblera rapid mover; someone who scramblesshadowan inseparable companionshufflersomeone who walks without raising the feetaquanaut, skin-diveran underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinderspacewalkeran astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer spacestalkersomeone who walks with long stiff stridesstamper, stomper, tramper, tramplersomeone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the groundstowawaya person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passagestraphangera standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for supportstridera person who walks rapidly with long stepsswaggerersomeone who walks in an arrogant mannertraversersomeone who moves or passes acrossdrifter, floater, vagabond, vagranta wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of supportvisiting firemanan important or distinguished visitorwaddlersomeone who walks with a waddling gaitwayfarera pedestrian who walks from place to placeprodigalsomeone who returns after a long absence characterized by reckless behavior
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -er, -or
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "one who; action or process."