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Excursionist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A person who goes on an excursion.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who makes an excursion; specifically, a member of a company making a journey for pleasure.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a tourist who is visiting sights of interest

Word Usage

"Worse than all, he finds himself confounded with a still lower class, known at Bar Harbor as "the tourist" -- elsewhere called the excursionist -- who comes by the hundred on the steamers in linen dusters, and is compelled by force of circumstances to "do""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tourist holidaymaker tourer

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

tripper tourist voyager rambler walker