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itinerant

UK/aɪˈtɪnɚənt/US/aɪˈtɪnɚənt/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,082 of 15,258leans written

Itinerant means travelling from place to place to find work. An itinerant preacher.

It describes work rather than homelessness, since the travelling is what the job requires. Itinerant workers built most of the world's harvests and railways and are rarely named in the records.

Definitions of itinerant

  1. 1adjectiveitinerantTravelling from place to place to find work.C1

    “He spent nine years as an itinerant teacher of music.”

itinerant is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin itinerans comes from iter, a journey.

  1. Latin

    itinerāns

  2. English, today

    itinerant

Built from

  • itineror · Latin — travel

From Latin itinerāns, present active participle of itineror (“travel”), from iter. by surface analysis, itiner- + -ant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

itinerant in the wild

  • The council, established by Pope John Paul II on 28 June 1988, was dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and itinerant people.

    Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People

  • The origins of the traditionally itinerant groups in Europe are not always clear.

    Itinerant groups in Europe

  • Many itinerant groups speak their own language or dialect, though with outsiders they will use the language of the surrounding settled population.

    Itinerant groups in Europe

  • An itinerant court was a migratory form of government in European kingdoms during the Early Middle Ages.

    Itinerant court

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.