itinerant 
itin·er·ant (--ənt)
adjective
traveling from place to place or on a circuit
Etymology: LL itinerans, prp. of itinerari, to travel < L iter (gen. itineris), a walk, journey < base of ire, to go: see year
noun
a person who travels from place to place
itinerant
modif.
itinerant applies to persons whose work or profession requires them to travel from place to place itinerant laborers, an itinerant preacher; ambulatory specifically implies ability to walk about an ambulatory patient; peripatetic implies a walking or moving about in carrying on some activity and is applied humorously to persons who are always on the go; nomadic is applied to tribes or groups of people who have no permanent home, but move about constantly in search of food for themselves, pasture for the animals they herd, etc.; vagrant is applied to individuals who wander about without a fixed home, and implies shiftlessness, disorderliness, etc.
Converse of object
- become: Woodman then returned to his native Sussex where he became an itinerant lay preacher.
Converse of subject
- cause: What do you plan to do about the problems caused by itinerants?
Modifies a noun
- preacher: The same day, an itinerant preacher came to the village.
- evangelist: This is typical of the life of an itinerant evangelist in China.
- preaching: Ever an advocate for toleration, he returned to itinerant preaching in the 1690s.
- ministry: Note also that for the three years of his itinerant ministry Jesus had underwriters!
- laborer: The name " grecian " has also been used in the past as a derogatory term for itinerant laborers.
Modifying Another Word
- increasingly: Indeed, for many, the increasingly itinerant nature of work leads us into several different careers during our working lives.
Noun used with modifier
- justice: The market was allowed to her by the justices itinerant.
Browse dictionary entries near itinerant
- ‹ itinerancy
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- ‹ Ithaca
- ‹ iterative
- ‹ iteration
- ‹ iterate
- ‹ itemized deduction
- ‹ itemized
- ‹ itemize
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