traveler
traveler is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
- 2.(Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
- 3.(Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
- 4.(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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advocate
- agent
- ambassador
- arbitrator
- attache
- attorney
- auctioneer
- bagman
- bailiff
- broker
- business
- charge
- clerk
- commercial
- commissary
- commission
- commissionaire
- commissioner
- committee
- consignee
- consul
- corps
- correspondent
- curator
- delegate
- deputy
- diplomat
- diplomate
- diplomatist
- director
- drummer
- embassador
- embassy
- emissary
- employe
- envoy
- factor
- factotum
- functionary
- garnishee
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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