tourist

«tourist» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who travels to a place for fun, to see it and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (tourist, tourists); adjective (a tourist town)

meaning for a pupil

1) A tourist is a person who travels to a place for fun, to see it and visit its sights. tree →

2) A tourist place is one that many visitors come to. tree →

sense in the lessons

people counted, on buses, in groups; tickets per tourist; in everyday life: tourists take photos, buy souvenirs, use maps and guides; in geography: tourism brings money to towns; phrases: «tourist attraction», «tourist information», «tourist season»

examples

• A bus carries 45 tourists. tree →
• 120 tourists visited the castle. tree →
• Each tourist pays $6. tree →
• The tourists split into groups of 10. tree →
• Tourists took photos of the old bridge. tree →
• The tourist asked us the way to the museum. tree →
• Summer is the busy tourist season at the beach. tree →
• The tourist information centre gave us a free map. tree →

note

People counted; per tourist marks a rate (all tickets = tourists × price). Trap: buses needed for tourists: if there is a remainder, one more bus. «Tourism» is the business of travel.

In the corpora

• People once cut tunnels through giant sequoias for cars as a tourist trick, and one tunnel tree fell in a storm in 2017.

Trees and pragmatics

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