globetrotter

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From globe +‎ trotter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡləʊbˌtɹɒtə(ɹ)/

Noun

globetrotter (plural globetrotters)

  1. 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".
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7:
      Globe-trotters who expect entertainment as a right, have, even within my memory, blunted this open-heartedness, but, none the less, to-day if you belong to the Inner Circle and are neither a bear nor a black sheep all houses are open to you and our small world is very kind and helpful.
    • 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

  • Danish: globetrotter
  • French: globetrotteur
  • German: Globetrotter
  • Norwegian Bokmål: globetrotter
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: globetrotter
  • Swedish: globetrotter

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English globetrotter.

Noun

globetrotter m (definite singular globetrotteren, indefinite plural globetrottere, definite plural globetrotterne)

  1. a globetrotter

Etymology 2

Verb

globetrotter

  1. present of globetrotte

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English globetrotter.

Noun

globetrotter m (definite singular globetrotteren, indefinite plural globetrotterar, definite plural globetrotterane)

  1. a globetrotter

Usage notes

Also spelt globetrottar, perhaps unofficially.

References