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Tramper

Definition: Tramper

Tramper

Noun

1. Someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground.

2. A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tramper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Synonyms: Tramper

Synonyms: hiker (n), stamper (n), stomper (n), tramp (n), trampler (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tramper

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Tramper

Non-English Usage: "Tramper" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (hitcher, hitchhiker), Serbo-Croatian (tramp).

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Commercial Usage: Tramper

DomainTitle

Books

  • Why I'll never hike the Appalachian Trail : more writings from a White Mountain tramper (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tramper

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tramper

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tramper

Language Translations for "tramper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

troagyrey (hiker, plodder, plodding, trudger). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ampertray

   

Russian 

  

бродяга (bum, derelict, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tramper

Derivations

Words beginning with "tramper": trampers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tramper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ramper, teamper, trampe, trampen, trampet, trampey, trampo, Trampor, traper, Tremper, Tromeur, Tromper, Trumhere, trumper, tzampa. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tramper"

Words rhyming with "tramper" (pronounced 'Tramp"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tramper

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-p-r-r-t"

-1 letter: prater, prearm, tamper.

-2 letters: apter, armer, armet, mater, parer, pater, peart, prate, ramet, raper, rater, rearm, remap, tamer, taper, tarre, terra, tramp.

-3 letters: aper, mare, mart, mate, meat, meta, pare, parr, part, pate, pear, peat, perm, pert, pram, prat, ramp, rape, rapt, rare, rate, ream, reap, rear, tame, tamp, tape, tare, tarp, team.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-p-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: imparter, tamperer, trampers, trampler.

 

+2 letters: imparters, imperator, parameter, preformat, premarket, premature, ramparted, tamperers, temporary, tramplers.

 

+3 letters: imperators, parameters, parametric, permafrost, preformats, premarital, prematures, printmaker, supersmart.

 

+4 letters: cryptomeria, extemporary, hypermarket, imperforate, imprecatory, impregnator, madreporite, parametrize, permafrosts, polarimeter, polarimetry, prematurely, prematurity, preromantic, preterminal, printmakers, spectrogram, supermarket, tamperproof, temperature, temporaries, temporarily, thermograph, trampoliner.

 

+5 letters: amperometric, aromatherapy, contemporary, cryptomerias, hypermarkets, hyperthermia, imperatorial, impersonator, impregnators, intercompare, macropterous, madreporites, mythographer, parameterize, parametrized, parametrizes, parathormone, perambulator, performative, performatory, polarimeters, polarimetric, preformation, preformatted, preformulate, premaritally, premarketing, premeditator, premenstrual, premigration, pretreatment, spectrograms, supermarkets, superstardom, superstratum, temperatures, thermographs, thermography, trampoliners.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tramper


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 6D 70 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .-    --    .--.    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#109 &#112 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 006D 0070 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54846779827184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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