itinerant

Definition

Habitually travelling from place to place.

Etymology

From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”). See also itinerate, itinerary.

Example Sentences

• "an itinerant preacher or peddler"
• "The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made."
• "most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher."