different between backpacker vs traveller

English

Etymology

From backpack +? -er.

Noun

backpacker (plural backpackers)

1. A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English backpacker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k?p?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: back?pac?ker

Noun

backpacker m (plural backpackers)

1. backpacker

   Synonyms: rugzakreiziger, rugzaktoerist

English

Alternative forms

• traveler (American)

Etymology

From Middle English traveler, travelour, travailere, travailour (“worker", also "traveller”), equivalent to travel +? -er. Compare Anglo-Norman travailur, travailour, Old French travailleor, travelleeur, travelier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?æv?l?/, /?t?ævl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æv?l?/, /?t?ævl??/

Noun

traveller (plural travellers)

1. One who travels, especially to distant lands.
2. (dated) A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
3. (Britain) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
4. (Ireland) Alternative letter-case form of Traveller
5. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
6. (electrical engineering) One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
7. (nautical) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
8. (television, theater) A rail or track for a sliding curtain.
   • 1977, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews (volumes 38-39, page 134)

     That would detract from the austerity of Rudkin's study, and a curtain on a traveler is always slid across the stage […]

9. (bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
10. (US, Mississippi Delta) A styrofoam cup filled with liquor and usually ice, to be taken away from a place.
    • 2015: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant

      Nowhere else in the world had I seen such gigantic measures of liquor poured, such widespread enthusiasm for Bloodies and Mimosas on weekend mornings, or such firm insistence on giving sixteen-ounce Styrofoam cups loaded with iced liquor to guests leaving a party, so they might have a "traveler" for the drive home.

      At a bar in Yazoo City, the bartender asked me if I wanted to "go tall" with my bourbon on the rocks. I didn't know what he meant, but it sounded encouraging. "Sure," I said, "Let's go tall." He filled up a pint glass with ice. Then he filled it to the brim with bourbon. When I got up to leave with about half the drink gone, he poured the rest of it into a Styrofoam cup, assuming I would want a traveler.

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See also

• backpacker
• Irish Traveller
• tourist
• voyager