Synonyms for globe-trotter


Grammar : Noun
Spell : glohb-trot-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgloʊbˌtrɒt ər

Top 10 synonyms for globe-trotter Other synonyms for the word globe-trotter

Définition of globe-trotter

Origin :
  • "world traveller," 1871, from globe + agent noun from trot (v.). As a verb, globetrot is recorded from 1883.
  • As in wanderer : noun person who travels aimlessly
  • As in wayfarer : noun traveler
Example sentences :
  • Pretty occupation for an old war horse like me or a globe-trotter like you.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • Our most interesting little parishioner has set her heart on this globe-trotter.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
  • And, thank Heaven, it has but seldom been defiled by the globe-trotter.
  • Extract from : « The Call Of The South » by Louis Becke
  • The scene is so familiar that only a “globe-trotter” would notice it.
  • Extract from : « Tales of the Malayan Coast » by Rounsevelle Wildman
  • Mr. Thomas Cook was the son of the original inventor of the ‘Globe-trotter.’
  • Extract from : « Tracks of a Rolling Stone » by Henry J. Coke
  • I'm told he's a bit of a globe-trotter, sportsman, and so on.
  • Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing
  • The globe-trotter smiled a sickly smile, and changed the subject.
  • Extract from : « An Outback Marriage » by Andrew Barton Paterson
  • Here Gillespie, the globe-trotter, cut into the conversation.
  • Extract from : « An Outback Marriage » by Andrew Barton Paterson
  • But there is no reverence in the Globe-trotter: he is brazen.
  • Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
  • "You are certainly a wonderful people," the globe-trotter said, when he had finished.
  • Extract from : « The Californiacs » by Inez Haynes Irwin
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