traveller

Synonyms:

traveler

Examples:

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Marco Polo

Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)

Neil Armstrong

United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)

James Bowie

United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836)

Johnny Appleseed

United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

John Endecott

born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665)

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968)

John Herschel Glenn Jr.

made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)

Bernard Hinault

French racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1954)

Anne Hutchinson

American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)

Eddy Merckx

Belgian racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1945)

Peter Minnewit

Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638)

Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.

astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)

Miles Standish

English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656)

Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova

Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937)

Roger Williams

English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)

Edward Winslow

English colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655)

Daniel Boone

an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820)

Martha Jane Burke

United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)

Christopher Carson

United States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868)

David Crockett

United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836)

Types:

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absentee

one that is absent or not in residence

air traveler, air traveller

someone who travels by airplane

arrival, arriver, comer

someone who arrives (or has arrived)

astronaut, cosmonaut, spaceman

a person trained to travel in a spacecraft

business traveler

a traveler whose expenses are paid by the business he works for

bearer, carrier, toter

someone whose employment involves carrying something

companion, fellow traveler, fellow traveller

a traveler who accompanies you

entrant

someone who enters

flier, flyer

someone who travels by air

follower

someone who travels behind or pursues another

alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander

a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country

hosteller

a traveler who lodges in hostels

courier, messenger

a person who carries a message

migrant, migrator

traveler who moves from one region or country to another

motorcyclist

a traveler who rides a motorcycle

mover

someone who moves

musher

a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team

passenger, rider

a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

footer, pedestrian, walker

a person who travels by foot

rafter, raftman, raftsman

someone who travels by raft

rider

a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)

rider

a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)

runner

someone who travels on foot by running

scourer

someone who travels widely and energetically

bather, natator, swimmer

a person who travels through the water by swimming

holidaymaker, tourer, tourist

someone who travels for pleasure

transient

one who stays for only a short time

trekker

a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country)

visitant, visitor

someone who visits

voyager

a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea)

bird of passage, roamer, rover, wanderer

someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

journeyer, wayfarer

a traveler going on a trip

AWOL

one who is away or absent without leave

advancer

someone who advances

ascender

someone who ascends

au pair

a young foreigner who lives with a family in return for doing light housework

boulevardier

a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris)

caller, company

a social or business visitor

coaster

someone who coasts

commuter

someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city

conveyer, conveyor

a person who conveys (carries or transmits)

defaulter

someone who fails to make a required appearance in court

departer, goer, leaver

someone who leaves

descender

someone who descends

dispatch rider

a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)

early bird

a person who arrives early before others do

emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer

someone who leaves one country to settle in another

evacuee

a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place

deportee, exile

a person who is expelled from home or country by authority

exile, expat, expatriate

a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

fare

a paying (taxi) passenger

floater

a swimmer who floats in the water

gringo

a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)

guest, invitee

a visitor to whom hospitality is extended

hang glider

a rider of a hang glider

herald, trumpeter

(formal) a person who announces important news

hiker, tramp, tramper

a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

hitchhiker

a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles

hitter, striker

someone who hits

hobbler, limper

someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait

equestrian, horseback rider, horseman

a man skilled in equitation

immigrant

a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

import, importee

an imported person brought from a foreign country

interloper, intruder, trespasser

someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission

jaywalker

a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally

jogger

someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)

latecomer

someone who arrives late

lunger

someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing)

marcher, parader

walks with regular or stately step

bearer

a messenger who bears or presents

errand boy, messenger boy

a boy who earns money by running errands

metic

an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city

newcomer

a recent arrival

nomad

a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons

nondriver

a person who is not a driver

passer, passer-by, passerby

a person who passes by casually or by chance

pedaler, pedaller

a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle)

peripatetic

a person who walks from place to place

pilgrim

someone who journeys in foreign lands

process-server

someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant

puller

someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself

chaser, pursuer

a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture

pusher, shover

someone who pushes

rambler

a person who takes long walks in the country

runner

a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

rusher

someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory

ambler, saunterer, stroller

someone who walks at a leisurely pace

scrambler

a rapid mover; someone who scrambles

colonist, settler

a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country

shadow

an inseparable companion

shuffler

someone who walks without raising the feet

excursionist, rubberneck, sightseer, tripper

a tourist who is visiting sights of interest

aquanaut, skin-diver

an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder

spacewalker

an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space

reeler, staggerer, totterer

someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall

stalker

someone who walks with long stiff strides

stamper, stomper, tramper, trampler

someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground

stowaway

a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage

straphanger

a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support

strider

a person who walks rapidly with long steps

stumbler, tripper

a walker or runner who trips and almost falls

surfboarder, surfer

someone who engages in surfboarding

swaggerer

someone who walks in an arrogant manner

shadow, shadower, tail

a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

transferer, transferrer

someone who transfers something

traverser

someone who moves or passes across

hooky player, truant

one who is absent from school without permission

plodder, slogger, trudger

someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner

drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant

a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

visiting fireman

an important or distinguished visitor

waddler

someone who walks with a waddling gait

wayfarer

a pedestrian who walks from place to place

Type of:

individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

a human being