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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
traveller
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a traveller's cheque (=a type of cheque that you can exchange for money in another country)
▪ Are you taking some traveller's cheques on holiday?
commercial traveller
fellow traveller
New Age traveller
seasoned traveller/observer etc
▪ Artie was by then a seasoned musician with six albums to his credit.
traveller's cheque
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
▪ Harry Secombe was the third child of a none-too-successful commercial traveller living on a council estate near Swansea.
▪ In 1866 he married Lucy Ellen, daughter of Edward Jones, commercial traveller.
▪ And did you know that your dear Andrew is a commercial traveller?
▪ One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.
▪ In August Sarah was invited to a dinner dance by a commercial traveller who came to the shop.
▪ He's a commercial traveller and the wife's a cook in a Newcastle hotel.
fellow
▪ My fellow traveller was going to a reunion with school friends at Torridon.
▪ It is as a stranger that I greet my own self, and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
armchair traveller/fan etc
▪ The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud.
▪ The first figures hint that armchair fans aren't rushing out to buy dishes because of the new football contract.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 80,000 air travellers pass through the terminal every day.
▪ As a seasoned traveller I know the value of being able to speak at least a few words of the local language.
▪ Many travellers find that facilities for young children are often inadequate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A traveller passing through the area afterwards reported scenes of utter devastation.
▪ As a traveller I am a seasoned whinger.
▪ Every traveller was struck by the sight of gibbets and tortured bodies.
▪ Looks like Howie and his pals jumped the two traveller guys on the road; landed one in hospital, apparently.
▪ Many of the exotic fruits may provide a wonderful meal for the traveller, but some contain a deadly poison.
▪ Now he was a traveller with a destination.
▪ One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.
▪ The traveller, we now discover, is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach.
Wiktionary
traveller

n. One who travels, especially to distant lands.

WordNet
traveller

n. a person who changes location [syn: traveler]

Wikipedia
Traveller (role-playing game)

Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, the first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop. Marc W. Miller designed Traveller with help from Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Loren Wiseman.

Traveller (horse)

Traveller (1857–1871) was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's most famous horse during the American Civil War. He was a grey American Saddlebred of 16 hands, notable for speed, strength and courage in combat. Lee acquired him in February 1862, and rode him in many battles. Traveller outlived Lee by only a few months, and had to be shot when he contracted untreatable tetanus. His name is often misspelled with a single ‘L’ in the American style, though Lee actually used the British-style double ‘L’.

Traveller (Christy Moore album)

Traveller is an album by Christy Moore, released in 1999.

Traveller (1997 film)

Traveller is a 1997 American crime drama film starring Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg and Julianna Margulies. The plot centers on a man joining a group of nomadic con artists in rural North Carolina. In 2012, it was announced that the film would be released as part of a Blu-ray disc double feature with Telling Lies in America from Shout! Factory on May 25.

Traveller (Slough Feg album)

Traveller is a concept album by the American folk/ power metal band The Lord Weird Slough Feg. The album is based on Game Designers' Workshop's 1977 science fiction role-playing game, Traveller.

Traveller (novel)
This page refers to the novel by Richard Adams. For the historical horse on which the novel is based, see Traveller (horse).

Traveller is a historical novel written by Richard Adams in 1988. It recounts the American Civil War through the viewpoint of Traveller, the favorite horse of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Traveller (2012 film)

"Traveller" was recorded for Linde Nijland's album, A Musical Journey, in 2010. The story of the video is based on her lyrics, which portrait a traveller who asks herself questions along the road. Symbolically, the questions are about the meaning of life. The video is intended to convey the astral sense of the song. A 2D computer animation with watercolour paintings were designated for the background, to carry over the softness and pureness of Nijland's voice and music into the video.

Traveller (1999 film)

Traveller is a 1999 Brazilian drama film directed by Paulo César Saraceni. It was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Mention.

Traveller (Jorn album)

Traveller is the eighth studio album by Norwegian singer Jørn Lande's solo band JORN.

The album was released on June 14, 2013 in Europe and June 11, 2013 in North America. It is characterized by its heavy yet melodic sound. The album lyrics primarily center around the themes of life and death.

Former guitarist Tore Moren and bassist Nic Angileri left the band after the previous album, Bring Heavy Rock to the Land, to pursue solo careers. The new line-up for Traveller includes Wig Wam guitarist Trond Holter and bassist Bernt Jansen.

A video clip for the title track "Traveller" featuring the new members of JORN was released on May 28, 2013 and a follow-up video for "Cancer Demon" was released five weeks later

Traveller is the only album featuring bassist Bernt Jansen and the last to feature guitarist Jimmy Iversen and Jorn longtime drummer and partner Willy Bendiksen, who left the band on November 4, 2013.

Traveller (Anoushka Shankar album)

Traveller is a studio album by Indian sitarist Anoushka Shankar, released in October 2011 through Deutsche Grammophon. The album was produced by Javier Limón.

Traveller received a nomination in the Best World Music Album category at the 2013 Grammy Awards. However, the award went to Anoushka's late father Ravi Shankar (for his album The Living Room Sessions Part 1), and was accepted by Anoushka on his behalf.

Traveller (Chris Stapleton album)

Traveller is the debut studio album by American country music artist Chris Stapleton. The album was produced by Dave Cobb and was released on May 5, 2015, through Mercury Nashville.

Described by music critics as an old-school country, Southern rock record, Traveller received critical acclaim and earned Stapleton several awards. It was named Album of the Year at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards. Furthermore, it received a nomination at the 58th Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and a win for Best Country Album. The song " Traveller" also won Best Country Solo Performance. At the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards it won Album of the Year, with the song " Nobody to Blame" also winning Song of the Year.

Traveller reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, and was later certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States as of August 2016. It generated three singles: " Traveller", " Nobody to Blame", and "Parachute". "Nobody To Blame" reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart. Stapleton has released a music video for the song "Fire Away".

Traveller (Chris Stapleton song)

"Traveller" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Chris Stapleton. It was released to radio on April 27, 2015 as his debut solo single from his debut album of the same name. "Traveller" received nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance at the 58th Grammy Awards, winning the latter. The song has sold 135,000 copies in the United States as of February 2016.

Usage examples of "traveller".

We should then be brought to acknowledge that it behooves a Christian traveller to crave the assistance of Him who can enable us to suffer with becoming fortitude and resignation all the afflicting dispensations of life, rather than desire to be preserved from meeting them.

London dealer to the farmer who manufactured the cheese: he declared that he had bought the anotta of a mercantile traveller, who had supplied him and his neighbours for years with that commodity, without giving occasion to a single complaint.

Ibn Battuta, the great Arab traveller, visited Baghdad in 1327 and found that the merged institution had four juridical schools.

He had the sun-scorched look of a traveller who has just crossed the Atlantic, and he smiled at Bernard with his honest eyes.

You may even sit bestraddle and dangle a hook for fish if you will, so long as you have an eye out for other travellers who may, like me, wish to proceed at a normal pace.

Weems, speaking for Horry, describes in ludicrous terms, their journey through North Carolina, -- through a region swarming with Tories, but, fortunately for our travellers, who were venomous without being active.

Travellers and sportsmen often meet with this marmot, and speak of its sitting up in groups, and suddenly disappearing into its burrows.

Traveller reached up to touch the rolls of cloth in his ears, then he looked at Marris and opened his mouth.

Traveller said to Marris in a surprised voice, as they stood to one side to allow a group of armed men and women to run by.

It parted as Marris reached it though the arrival of the Traveller did little to ease the tension and Marris kept close to him as they walked up to the Count.

Ibryen gave a curt nod and, with a hint of reluctance at being taken from this impromptu vigil, Marris led the Traveller into the Council Hall.

At a loss to know how to respond to any of these remarks, Marris remained silent and sat down where the Traveller had indicated.

Traveller pursed his lips and moved a solitary finger in a delicate plea for silence though Marris was not aware that he had made any sound.

Iscar was resting in one of the rooms off the Hall, while Marris and the Traveller were sitting with nothing to do other than watch Ibryen as he read through the papers that Iscar had brought.

The skipper of our cargo boat roused me just as we turned, putting under my sleepy nostrils a handful of toasted beans on a leaf, and a small cup full of something that was not coffee, but smelt as good as that matutinal beverage always does to the tired traveller.