tourist

tourist

See also: Tourist

English

Tourists taking photographs of Primošten, Croatia

Etymology

From tour +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊəɹɪst/, /ˈtɔːɹɪst/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹ.ɪst/, /ˈtɝ.ɪst/, /ˈtɔɹ.ɪst/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʊəɹɪst, -ɔːɹɪst

Noun

tourist (plural tourists)

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

2. (derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
3. (sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.
4. (computing, dated) A guest user on a computer system.
   • 1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook (page 105)

     This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.

   • 2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web

     The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cybertourist
• touristic
• tourist office
• tourist trap
• touristy

Related terms

• tour
• tour guide
• tourism
• Grand Tour

Descendants

• → Albanian: turist
• → Armenian: տուրիստ (turist)
• → Asturian: turista
• → Azerbaijani: turist
• → Belarusian: турыст (turyst)
• → Catalan: turista
• → Czech: turista
• → Danish: turist
• → Dutch: toerist
• → Estonian: turist
• → Finnish: turisti
• → French: touriste
  • → Persian: توریست‎ (turist)
  • → Italian: turista
    • → Afar: tuurísti
    • → Cimbrian: turist
    • → Mòcheno: turist
  • → Norman: touriste
  • → Romanian: turist
  • → Turkish: turist
• → Galician: turista
• → Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)
• → German: Tourist
• → Greek: τουρίστας (tourístas)
• → Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)
• → Hungarian: turista
• → Indonesian: turis
• → Japanese: ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)
• → Kazakh: турист (turist)
• → Kyrgyz: турист (turist)
• → Latvian: tūrists
• → Lithuanian: turistas
• → Macedonian: турист (turist)
• → Norwegian: turist
  • → Northern Sami: turista, durista
• → Occitan: torista
• → Polish: turysta
• → Portuguese: turista
• → Russian: турист (turist)
• → Serbo-Croatian: turist / турист
• → Slovak: turista
• → Slovene: turist
• → Spanish: turista
• → Swedish: turist
• → Tagalog: turista
• → Turkmen: turist
• → Ukrainian: турист (turyst)
• → Uzbek: turist
• → Welsh: twrist
• → Yiddish: טוריסט‎ (turist)

Translations

someone who travels for pleasure

Albanian: turist (sq) m Amharic: ቱሪስት (turist) Arabic: سَائِح‎ m (sāʾiḥ), سَائِحَة‎ f (sāʾiḥa) Egyptian Arabic: سايح‎ m (sāyiḥ) Armenian: զբոսաշրջիկ (hy) (zbosašrǰik), տուրիստ (hy) (turist) Asturian: turista m or f Azerbaijani: turist (az), səyyah (az), səyahətçi Belarusian: туры́ст m (turýst), туры́стка f (turýstka) Bengali: পর্যটক (pôrĵôṭôkô) Bulgarian: тури́ст (bg) m (turíst), тури́стка f (turístka) Burmese: ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသည် (my) (kambhahlany.hka.ri:sany), ခရီးသည် (my) (hka.ri:sany), တူးရစ် (tu:rac), တိုရစ် (tuirac) Catalan: turista (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 旅游者 (zh) (lǚyóuzhě), 游客 (zh) (yóukè), 游人 (zh) (yóurén), 觀光客／观光客 (zh) (guānguāngkè) Czech: turista (cs) m, turistika (cs) f Danish: turist (da) Dutch: toerist (nl) m, toeriste (nl) f Esperanto: turisto Estonian: turist Finnish: turisti (fi), matkailija (fi) French: touriste (fr) m or f Galician: turista (gl) m or f Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi) German: Tourist (de) m, Touristin (de) f, Vergnügungsreisender m, Vergnügungsreisende f, Reisender (de) m, Reisende (de) f Greek: τουρίστας (el) m (tourístas) Hebrew: תייר \\ תַיָר‎ m (tayár) Hindi: पर्यटक (hi) m (paryaṭak), टूरिस्ट m (ṭūrisṭ) Hungarian: turista (hu) Icelandic: ferðamaður m Ido: turisto (io) Indonesian: turis (id), wisatawan (id) Irish: turasóir m, cuairteoir m, fámaire m Italian: turista (it) m or f Japanese: 旅行者 (ja) (りょこうしゃ, ryokōsha), 観光客 (かんこうきゃく, kankōkyaku), ツーリスト (tsūrisuto) Kazakh: турист (kk) (turist), саяхатшы (saäxatşy) Khmer: អ្នកទេសចរ (nĕək teihsaʼcɑɑ), ទេសចរ (teihsaʼcɑɑ) Korean: 관광객(觀光客) (ko) (gwan'gwanggaek), 여행자(旅行者) (ko) (yeohaengja), 려행자(旅行者) (ryeohaengja) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: турист (ky) (turist), саякатчы (ky) (sayakatçı) Lao: ນັກທ່ອງທ່ຽວ (nak thǭng thiāu) Latvian: tūrists m, tūriste f Lithuanian: turistas (lt) m, turistė f, keliautojas m, keliautoja f Luhya: omtali Macedonian: тури́ст m (turíst), тури́стка f (turístka) Malay: pelancong Maori: tūruhi Mongolian: Cyrillic: жуулчин (mn) (žuulčin), турист (turist) Mòcheno: turist m Norman: touriste m or f Norwegian: Bokmål: turist m Occitan: torista m or f Pashto: سياح‎ m (sayāh), ټوريسټ‎ m (ṭorísṭ) Persian: توریست‎ (fa) (turist), سیاح‎ (fa) (sayyâh) Polish: turysta (pl) m, turystka (pl) f Portuguese: turista (pt) m or f Romanian: turist (ro) m, turistă (ro) f Russian: тури́ст (ru) m (turíst), тури́стка (ru) f (turístka), путеше́ственник (ru) m (putešéstvennik), путеше́ственница (ru) f (putešéstvennica) Rwanda-Rundi: ingezi Scottish Gaelic: neach-turais m or f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ту̀рист m, ту̀ристкиња f Roman: tùrist (sh) m, tùristkinja (sh) f Sinhalese: සංචාරක (saṁcāraka) Slovak: turista m, turistika f Slovene: turȋst (sl) m, turistka f Spanish: turista (es) m or f Swahili: mtalii (sw) Swedish: turist (sv) c Tagalog: turista (tl) Tajik: сайёҳ (tg) (sayyoh) Thai: นักท่องเที่ยว (th) (nák-tɔ̂ng-tîao) Tibetan: ཡུལ་སྐོར་བ (yul skor ba) Turkish: turist (tr), gezgin (tr), gezici (tr), gezmen (tr), seyyah (tr) Turkmen: turist, syýahatçy Ukrainian: тури́ст m (turýst), тури́стка f (turýstka) Urdu: سیاح‎ (ur) m (sayyāh), ٹورسٹ‎ (ur) m (ṭūrisṭ) Uyghur: ساياھەتچى‎ (ug) (sayahetchi) Uzbek: turist (uz), sayyoh (uz), sayohatchi (uz) Vietnamese: khách du lịch Volapük: (♂♀) töran (vo), (♂) hitöran, (♀) jitöran Welsh: teithiwr (cy) m, twrist m Yiddish: טוריסט‎ m (turist) Zhuang: youzhek

Further reading

• Tourism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia