traveller

«traveller» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a person who goes on a trip from one place to another, or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (traveller, travellers; US spelling traveler)

meaning for a pupil

1) A traveller is a person who goes on a trip from one place to another, or who travels a lot. tree →

2) A traveller is also a passenger on a bus, train or plane. tree →

3) In Ireland and the UK, Travellers are a community of people with their own traditions, many of whom have lived moving from place to place. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: a person on a trip with distances, speeds, times and tickets: distance = speed × time; also counted as passengers. In stories: a tired traveller arrives at an inn; travellers in old tales. Everyday life: travellers at airports and stations. Phrases: space traveller, time traveller, fellow traveller, a seasoned traveller.

examples

• In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways ceased, and the travellers walked through byways. (Prophets JDG.5.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• A traveller walks 5 km each hour. tree →
• The bus carries 40 travellers. tree →
• Each traveller pays $12. tree →
• How far has the traveller gone after 3 hours? tree →
• The tired traveller stopped at an inn for the night. tree →
• Travellers waited at the airport for their flight. tree →
• In the story, a time traveller visits the dinosaurs. tree →
• Each traveller may take one bag on the plane. tree →
• The Mother-Frog had once been a traveller. tree →

note

UK, Irish, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand spelling «traveller» (double l); US spelling «traveler». When it names the community, write «Traveller» with a capital. The person who moves: distance = speed × time. Also counted as passengers.

In the corpora

• The chapter's name is «Wayfarers All»: wayfarers are travellers on foot, people on their way somewhere.
• Gypsy and Traveller people are just people, each different.
• Plugs are different around the world, so travellers use a proper travel adaptor instead of forcing a plug in.
• When two travellers move towards each other, the gap between them shrinks by both their speeds together every hour.
• When a faster traveller chases a slower one going the same way, the gap shrinks by the difference of the speeds every hour.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «traveller» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.