TOURIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tourist mean? 

• TOURIST (noun)
  The noun TOURIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who travels for pleasure

  Familiarity information: TOURIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOURIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who travels for pleasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

holidaymaker; tourer; tourist

Hypernyms ("tourist" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tourist"):

excursionist; rubberneck; sightseer; tripper (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)

Derivation:

tour (a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area)

tour (make a tour of a certain place)

tourism (the business of providing services to tourists)

touristy (visited by throngs of tourists)

 Context examples 

The event description read, We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

The group based its survey on such tools as photographs, tourist sightings, safari guides, cattle herders, and village chiefs.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)