globetrotter
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
globetrotter (plural globetrotters)
- A person who travels often to faraway places.
- 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1:
- Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".
- 1914, Joseph Conrad, Chance[1], London: Methuen, →OCLC:
- “Any ship is that—for a reasonable man,” generalised Marlow in a conciliatory tone. “A sailor isn’t a globetrotter.”
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Possibly perceiving an expression of dubiosity on their faces the globetrotter went on, adhering to his adventures. —And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap. Knife in his back. Knife like that.
Descendants edit
- → Danish: globetrotter
- → French: globetrotteur
- → German: Globetrotter
- → Norwegian Bokmål: globetrotter
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: globetrotter
- → Swedish: globetrotter
Translations edit
person who travels often to faraway places
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From English globetrotter.
Noun edit
globetrotter m (definite singular globetrotteren, indefinite plural globetrottere, definite plural globetrotterne)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
globetrotter
References edit
- “globetrotter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “globetrotter” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From English globetrotter.
Noun edit
globetrotter m (definite singular globetrotteren, indefinite plural globetrotterar, definite plural globetrotterane)
Usage notes edit
Also spelt globetrottar, perhaps unofficially.
References edit
- “globetrotter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.