Meaning & use
tourist
A person who travels to a place for pleasure, sightseeing, or vacation rather than work.
See it in a sentence
Tourists lined up outside the museum to see the famous painting.
As a tourist, she made sure to try the local street food everywhere she went.
A note on using this word
Tourist can carry a mildly negative tone when contrasted with 'traveler,' implying someone who only visits surface attractions.
Words with a similar meaning
travelervisitor
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
localresident
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