tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɔːɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈtʊɹ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹ.ɪst/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪst
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪst
rhymes: -ɜːɹɪst
Forms: form: tourists
Etymology: From tour + -ist. Doublet of turista.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: The group operating where we were was called the "Abu Sayyaf" and specialised in K&R (kidnap and ransom), usually of tourists who would finish up beheaded on TV.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 94:
glosses: Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business.
examples: text: Marla - the big tourist. The faker.
ref: 1999, David Fincher, director, Fight Club, spoken by The Narrator (Edward Norton):
glosses: One who visits a place, attends a social event or joins a group hobby out of curiosity, wanting to watch or participate without actual commitment or involvement.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: One who visits a place, attends a social event or joins a group hobby out of curiosity, wanting to watch or participate without actual commitment or involvement.
One who is not a member of a fandom or hobby-oriented community but engages with its discourse to seek attention or approval, often with a disrespectful or harassing behavior towards the norms or long time members of the subculture they are trying to be part of with an increased sense of unwelcome moral self-importance over the enthusiast group. Derived from the term "Problem Tourist".
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A member of the visiting team in a match.
examples: text: This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.
ref: 1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105:
text: The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.
ref: 2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A guest user on a computer system.
Derived terms: abortion tourist
agritourist
antitourist
architourist
astrotourist
avitourist
bicycle tourist
birth tourist
class tourist
cybertourist
dark tourist
disaster tourist
ecotourist
enotourist
ethnotourist
gastrotourist
geotourist
grief tourist
nontourist
posttourist
romance tourist
sex tourist
six bob a day tourist
space tourist
suicide tourist
sustainable tourist
ten-pound tourist
ten pound tourist
tourist agency
tourist area
tourist attraction
tourist card
tourist court
tourist destination
touristdom
tourist guide
tourist highway
touristic
touristification
touristify
touristlike
tourist office
tourist-oriented destination sign
tourist police
touristry
touristscape
tourist trap
tourist trappy
tourist tree
tourist visa
touristy
touron
touronaut
voluntourist
Related terms: tour
tour guide
tourism
Grand Tour