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Definitions for: Traveler [n] a person who changes location
Webster (1913) Definition: Trav"el*er, n. [Written also traveler.]
1. One who travels; one who has traveled much.
2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of
receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring
surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
5. (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.
Synonyms: traveller
See Also: absentee, alien, arrival, arriver, astronaut, bather, bearer, bird of passage, business traveler, carrier, comer, companion, cosmonaut, courier, entrant, fellow traveler, fellow traveller, flier, flyer, follower, footer, foreigner, holidaymaker, hosteller, human, individual, journeyer, Marco Polo, messenger, migrant, migrator, mortal, mover, musher, natator, noncitizen, outlander, passenger, pedestrian, person, Polo, rafter, raftman, raftsman, rider, roamer, rover, runner, scourer, somebody, someone, soul, spaceman, swimmer, toter, tourer, tourist, transient, trekker, visitant, visitor, voyager, walker, wanderer, wayfarer
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