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# traveller

«traveller» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who goes on a trip from one place to another, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (traveller, travellers; US spelling traveler)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A traveller is a person who goes on a trip from one place to another, or who travels a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#m1)

2) A traveller is also a passenger on a bus, train or plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#m2)

3) In Ireland and the UK, Travellers are a community of people with their own traditions, many of whom have lived moving from place to place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a person on a trip with distances, speeds, times and tickets: distance = speed × time; also counted as passengers. In stories: a tired traveller arrives at an inn; travellers in old tales. Everyday life: travellers at airports and stations. Phrases: space traveller, time traveller, fellow traveller, a seasoned traveller.

### examples

- A traveller walks 5 km each hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x1)
- The bus carries 40 travellers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x2)
- Each traveller pays $12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x3)
- How far has the traveller gone after 3 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x4)
- The tired traveller stopped at an inn for the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x5)
- Travellers waited at the airport for their flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x6)
- In the story, a time traveller visits the dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x7)
- Each traveller may take one bag on the plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x8)
- The Mother-Frog had once been a traveller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traveller/#x9)

### note

UK, Irish, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand spelling «traveller» (double l); US spelling «traveler». When it names the community, write «Traveller» with a capital. The person who moves: distance = speed × time. Also counted as passengers.

### In the corpora

- [The chapter's name is «Wayfarers All»: wayfarers are travellers on foot, people on their way somewhere.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/5/)
- [Gypsy and Traveller people are just people, each different.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/27/)
- [Plugs are different around the world, so travellers use a proper travel adaptor instead of forcing a plug in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors/3/)
- [When two travellers move towards each other, the gap between them shrinks by both their speeds together every hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/163-meeting-and-moving-apart/0/)
- [When a faster traveller chases a slower one going the same way, the gap shrinks by the difference of the speeds every hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/164-catching-up/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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