Definition of Traveler

Traveler

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

A traveling crane. See under Crane.

The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.

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Traveler Quotations

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.
Nicolaus Copernicus

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
William Hazlitt

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Walter Lippmann

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
David Rockefeller

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet Martineau

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
Daniel J. Boorstin

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Alan Dean Foster

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
Michelle Shocked

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
Brittany Murphy

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
Bill Brandt

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
Joseph Lelyveld

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
Carlo Goldoni

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Traveler Translations

traveler in Danish is rejsende
traveler in Dutch is reiziger
traveler in French is voyageur
traveler in German is Reise-, Reisender
traveler in Italian is viaggiatore
traveler in Portuguese is viajante
traveler in Spanish is viajante, viajero
traveler in Swedish is resande

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