单词 | globetrotter |
释义 | globetrottern. A person who travels extensively around the world, originally typically in a hurried manner, esp. for the purpose of sightseeing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > far or widely far traveller1624 far-goer1841 far-farer1861 globetrotter1873 trekker1932 1873 Daily News 22 Jan. 5/7 The Europeans there are only those belonging to the Legations and the missionary institutions, except an occasional ‘globe-trotter’ like myself. 1875 E. K. Laird (title) Rambles of a globe-trotter in Australia, Japan, China, Java, India and Cashmere. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 1 It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter. 1924 E. P. Mitchell Memoirs of Editor ix. 279 He came to see me..a veteran cosmopolite and globe-trotter whom he knew to have travelled twice to Europe. 1976 R. B. Roosevelt & J. Lofas Living in Step ii. 40 Mr. Smith had never traveled outside the United States. Mrs. Smith was an inveterate globe trotter. 2000 National Geographic Adventure Mar.–Apr. 125/2 A fearless globetrotter who seems to have made a parlor game of getting himself in trouble..and then charming his way out of it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1873 |
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