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globetrotter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡləʊbˌtɹɒtə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From globe + trotter.

Meanings

1. A person who travels often to faraway places.
   • “Any ship is that—for a reasonable man,” generalised Marlow in a conciliatory tone. “A sailor isn’t a globetrotter.” 1914, Joseph Conrad, Chance, London: Methuen, →OCLC:
   • Possibly perceiving an expression of dubiosity on their faces the globetrotter went on, adhering to his adventures. —And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap. Knife in his back. Knife like that. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
   • Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter". 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1:
   • Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as a right, have, even within my memory, blunted this open-heartedness, but, none the less, to-day if you belong to the Inner Circle and are neither a bear nor a black sheep all houses are open to you and our small world is very kind and helpful. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7:

Forms

Coordinates

cosmopolitan · cosmopolite

Descendants

globetrotteur · globetrotter · globetrotter · globetrotter · Globetrotter · globetrotter

Relateds

Globemaster · globetrotting · globetrot

Translations (22)

nl wereldreiziger (person who travels often to faraway places) · ru путеше́ственник (person who travels often to faraway places) · eo globtrotulo (person who travels often to faraway places) · tr seyyâh-ı âlem (person who travels often to faraway places) · fi maailmanmatkaaja (person who travels often to faraway places) · hu világjáró (person who travels often to faraway places) · ja グローブトロッター (person who travels often to faraway places) · nb globetrotter (person who travels often to faraway places) · sv globetrotter (person who travels often to faraway places) · de Globetrotterin (person who travels often to faraway places) · de Weltenbummlerin (person who travels often to faraway places) · da globetrotter (person who travels often to faraway places) · pl obieżyświat (person who travels often to faraway places) · ru путеше́ственница (person who travels often to faraway places) · fr globetrotteur (person who travels often to faraway places) · fr bourlingueur (person who travels often to faraway places) · es trotamundos (person who travels often to faraway places) · nn globetrotter (person who travels often to faraway places) · de Globetrotter (person who travels often to faraway places) · ca rodamón (person who travels often to faraway places) · de Weltenbummler (person who travels often to faraway places) · it giramondo (person who travels often to faraway places)