different between wayfaring vs traveller

English

Alternative forms

• waifaring (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English wayferande, weyverinde, wayverinde, from Old English we?farende, we?f?rende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way +? faring. Cognate with Icelandic vegfarandi. More at wayfare.

Adjective

wayfaring (not comparable)

1. Travelling, especially on foot.
2. Peripatetic.

Noun

wayfaring (countable and uncountable, plural wayfarings)

1. Travel, especially on foot.

Verb

wayfaring

1. present participle of wayfare

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