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tourist

UK/ˈtʊəɹɪst/US/ˈtʊɹɪst/
nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,860 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: tourists

A tourist is a person visiting a place on holiday, camera in hand. A coach of tourists, tourist information, a tourist trap.

Nobody calls themselves one — travellers, visitors and guests are all the same people avoiding the word, which carries a suggestion of seeing without understanding. Tourism is among the largest industries in the world and among the most damaging to the places it depends on. Note tour, from the Latin for a turn.

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Definitions of tourist

  1. 1nountouristA person visiting a place on holiday.A2+

    “In summer the old town is full of tourists taking photos.”

tourist is a visitor.

Where it comes from

Tour plus -ist, from French tour, a turn, from Latin tornus, a lathe. Turn and return come from the same turning.

  1. Old French

    tour

  2. English

    tour

  3. English, today

    tourist

From tour + -ist. From tour + ist. a doublet of turista. tour comes from Old French tour, from torner. From Old French tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Travel & Transport

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tourist in the wild

  • Mumbai, India has centuries of history and many sites of tourist interest.

    List of tourist attractions in Mumbai

  • A visitor center, visitor information center or tourist information center is a physical location that provides information to tourists.

    Visitor center

  • A tourist trap is an establishment (or group of establishments) created or re-purposed to attract tourists and their money.

    Tourist trap

  • Tourist trap derives from the information asymmetry between tourists and the market.

    Tourist trap

  • A tourist guide is a person who guides visitors in the language of their choice and interprets the cultural and natural heritage of an area.

    Tour guide

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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.

Related words

the tour family

tourtower

tourist — used about once every 713 pages · #3,860 · point at the bar for the others

  • ecotourism