Noun: tourist
| Singular | tourist |
| Plural | tourists |
Sample Sentences
-
Tourist shops are full of kitsch.
-
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. [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:]
-
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. [2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 94:]
-
Marla - the big tourist. The faker. [1999, David Fincher, director, Fight Club, spoken by The Narrator (Edward Norton):]
-
This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system. [1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105:]
-
The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados. [2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web:]
Nouns inflected like tourist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-nos
4. Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos
5. Proto-Hellenic *tórnos
6. Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor.
7. Latin tornus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Latin tornō
17. Old French torner
18. Old French tourder.
19. English tour
20. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
21. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
22. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
23. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
24. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
25. Proto-Hellenic *-tās
26. Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
27. Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
28. Latin -istader.
29. Old French -istebor.
30. Middle English -ist
31. English -ist
32. English tourist
33. From tour + -ist. Doublet of turista.
Verbs referencing "tourist"
English Nouns
turista, Hungarian Nouns
turista, Italian Nouns
turista, Finnish Nouns
turisti, Danish Nouns
turist, Swedish Nouns
turist, French Nouns
touriste, Dutch Nouns
toerist, Ukrainian Nouns
турист.