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Definition: Excursionist |
ExcursionistNoun1. A tourist who is visiting sights of interest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "excursionist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: ExcursionistSynonyms: rubberneck (n), sightseer (n), tripper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Excursionist |
| Non-English Usage: "Excursionist" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (excursionist, pleasurer, tourist, tripper). |
| "Excursionist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Excursionist" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "excursionist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ekskursionist (rambler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المتنزه (picnicker), القائم برحلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | турист (hiker, rubberneck, sightseer, tourist, tripper), екскурзиант (holiday maker, tripper), излетник (tourist, tripper, visitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výletník (hiker, holidaymaker, tripper, vacationist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | retkeilijä (day-tripper, explorer, hike, walker), huviretkeilijä, huvimatkailija. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | excursionniste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκδρομέασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטיל (hiker, rambler, stroller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiránduló (hiker, holiday maker, holiday-maker, picnicker), turista (hiker, holiday maker, holiday-maker, rambler, sightseer, tourist, touristic, tripper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | escursionista (hiker, rambler, sightseer, tourist), gitante (tripper, walker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | turryssagh, seyrhurryssagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | excursionistay viagem de excursão. (various references) excursionist (pleasurer, tourist, tripper), drumeţ (foot passenger, traveller, wayfarer, wayfaring man), cãlãtor (fare, fleeting, goer, itinerant, passenger, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrim, rider, roaming, short lived, tourist, transitory, traveller, travelling, vagrant, visitor, voyager, wayfarer, wayfaring man). (various references) экскурсант (camper, holidaymaker, tripper). (various references) izletnik (hiker, holiday maker, picnicker, tripper). (various references) excursionista (day-tripper, hiker, picnicker, rambler, sightseer, tourist, tripper, visitor). (various references) geziye çıkmış kimse. (various references) турист (camper, tourist), екскурсант (camper, tripper). (various references) người tham gia cuộc đi chơi tập thể, người đi tham quan (sightseer), người đi chơi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "excursionist": excursionists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "excursionist" (pronounced 'Ex*cur"sion*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alienist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Altruist, Ambitionist. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-t-u-x" | |
-2 letters: cousinries, excursions, extrusions, scrutinies, scrutinise. | |
-3 letters: coinsures, construes, countries, cretinous, cutinises, excisions, excursion, exorcists, extrinsic, extrusion, incisures, neuritics, neurotics, recisions, ricinuses, sciurines. | |
-4 letters: cisterns, cistrons, citreous, citrines, citruses, coexists, coinsure, cointers, coituses, construe, contuses, corniest, cornuses, counters, countess, counties, crinites, crosstie, crustose, cuisines, curtness, curtsies, cutinise, encrusts, eristics, excision, excitons, excitors, exorcist, incisors. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-t-u-x" | |
+1 letter: excursionists. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x c u r s i o n i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0063 0075 0072 0073 0069 006F 006E 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)399069878485758180758586 |
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