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/trˈævələr/ /trˈævlər/ Listen

noun

Traveler n.

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

(Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.

(Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

(Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.

Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers.

Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.

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Etymology of 'Traveler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Traveler" Quotes from Famous Books

... d'Arlange first paid 9,000 francs on account and the balance of the purchase money (an equivalent sum) had been received in instalments at long intervals subsequently. Now, if it had been easy for Madame Milner to make a false entry in her traveler's registry at the Hotel de Mariembourg, it was absurd to suppose that the jeweler had falsified all his accounts for four years. Hence, the facts were indisputable; and yet, the young detective was ...

— Monsieur Lecoq • Emile Gaboriau

... Mrs. Weldon. In 1871—consequently two years ago—a French traveler set out, under the auspices of the Paris Geographical Society, with the intention of crossing Africa from the west to the east. His point of departure was precisely the mouth of the Congo. His point of arrival would be as near as possible to Cape Deldago, at the mouths of the Rovuma, ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

... delightful. But by the end of May the soil, plants, and sky seem to have been baked in an oven. Most of the plants crumble to dust beneath the foot, and the ground is full of cracks; while the thirsty traveler gazes with eager longing through the burning glare to the snowy summits looming like ...

— The Mountains of California • John Muir

... some quiet lane, Diggle always seemed pleased to see him, and talked to him with the same ease and freedom, ever ready with a tag from his school books. Desmond did not like his Latin, but he found compensation in the traveler's tales of which Diggle had an inexhaustible store—tales of shipwreck and mutiny, of wild animals and wild men, of Dutch traders and Portuguese adventurers, of Indian nawabs and French bucaneers. Above all was Desmond interested in stories of India: he heard ...

— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... line of cliffs is usually very irregular; sharp salients are projected on the plains below, and deep recesses are cut into the terraces above. Intermittent streams coming down the cliffs have cut many canyons or canyon valleys, by which the traveler may pass from the plain below to the terrace above. By these gigantic stairways he may ascend to high plateaus, covered with forests of ...

— Canyons of the Colorado • J. W. Powell

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