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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wayfarer |
| Synonyms: | explorer, pioneer, sojourner, traveler, wanderer |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | alien, colonist, departer, displaced person, evacuee, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, migrator, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, émigré |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | nationalist, native |
| Main Entry: | explorer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trailblazer |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, experimenter, inquisitive person, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, searcher, seeker, traveler |
| Main Entry: | nomad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who wanders from place to place |
| Synonyms: | hobo, itinerant, migrant, pilgrim, rambler, roamer, rover, vagabond, wanderer, wayfarer |
| Main Entry: | passenger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who rides in vehicle conducted by another |
| Synonyms: | commuter, customer, excursionist, fare*, hitchhiker, patron, pilgrim, rider, tourist, traveler, voyager, wanderer, wayfarer |
| Antonyms: | driver |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pioneer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who finds a new place, founds something |
| Synonyms: | colonist, colonizer, developer, explorer, founder, frontier settler, guide, homesteader, immigrant, innovator, leader, pathfinder, pilgrim, scout, settler, squatter, trailblazer |
| Main Entry: | traveler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who journeys |
| Synonyms: | adventurer, barnstormer, bum*, commuter, displaced person, drifter, excursionist, expeditionist, explorer, floater, gadabout, globetrotter, gypsy, haj, hiker, hobo, itinerant, jet-setter, journeyer, junketer, migrant, navigator, nomad, passenger, peddler, pilgrim, rambler, roamer, rover, sailor, seafarer, sightseer, tourist, tramp, transmigrant, trekker, tripper, trouper, truant, vagabond, vagrant, voyager, wanderer, wayfarer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vagabond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leads an unsettled life; traveler |
| Synonyms: | explorer, gypsy, haji, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, rambler, rover, tourist, trailblazer, trekker, wanderer, wayfarer |
| Notes: | a vagabond refers to a person who leads a carefree, roaming existence; a vagrant ekes out a living by begging and is often considered a nuisance |
| Antonyms: | inhabitant |
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