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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#m1)

2) A tourist place is one that many visitors come to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x1)
- 120 tourists visited the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x2)
- Each tourist pays $6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x3)
- The tourists split into groups of 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x4)
- Tourists took photos of the old bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x5)
- The tourist asked us the way to the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x6)
- Summer is the busy tourist season at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x7)
- The tourist information centre gave us a free map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tourist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.