tourist

See also: Tourist

English

Tourists taking photographs of Primošten, Croatia

Etymology

From tour +‎ -ist. Doublet of turista.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊəɹɪst/, /ˈtɔːɹɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹ.ɪst/, /ˈtɝ.ɪst/, /ˈtɔɹ.ɪst/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʊəɹɪst, -ɔːɹɪst

Noun

tourist (plural tourists)

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

   • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 94:

     The group operating where we were was called the "Abu Sayyaf" and specialised in K&R (kidnap and ransom), usually of tourists who would finish up beheaded on TV.

2. (derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
   • 1999, David Fincher, director, Fight Club, spoken by The Narrator (Edward Norton):

     Marla - the big tourist. The faker.

3. (sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.
4. (computing, dated) A guest user on a computer system.
   • 1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105:

     This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system.

   • 2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web:

     The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados.

Derived terms

• abortion tourist
• agritourist
• antitourist
• architourist
• astrotourist
• avitourist
• bicycle tourist
• class tourist
• cybertourist
• dark tourist
• disaster tourist
• ecotourist
• enotourist
• ethnotourist
• gastrotourist
• geotourist
• grief tourist
• nontourist
• posttourist
• romance tourist
• sex tourist
• six bob a day tourist
• space tourist
• suicide tourist
• sustainable tourist
• ten pound tourist
• ten-pound tourist
• tourist agency
• tourist area
• tourist attraction
• tourist card
• tourist court
• tourist destination
• touristdom
• tourist guide
• tourist highway
• touristic
• touristification
• touristify
• touristlike
• tourist office
• tourist police
• touristry
• touristscape
• tourist trap
• tourist trappy
• tourist tree
• tourist visa
• touristy
• touron
• touron
• touronaut
• voluntourist

 

Related terms

• tour
• tour guide
• tourism
• Grand Tour

Descendants

• → Albanian: turist
• → Armenian: տուրիստ (turist)
• → Asturian: turista
• → Azerbaijani: turist
• → Belarusian: турыст (turyst)
• → Catalan: turista
• → Czech: turista
• → Danish: turist
• → Dutch: toerist
• → Estonian: turist
• → Finnish: turisti
• → French: touriste
  • → Persian: توریست (turist)
  • → Italian: turista
    • → Afar: tuurísti
    • → Cimbrian: turist
    • → Mòcheno: turist
  • → Norman: touriste
  • → Romanian: turist
  • → Turkish: turist
• → Galician: turista
• → Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)
• → German: Tourist
• → Greek: τουρίστας (tourístas)
• → Hindi: टूरिस्ट (ṭūrisṭ)
• → Hungarian: turista
• → Indonesian: turis
• → Japanese: ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)
• → Kazakh: турист (turist)
• → Kyrgyz: турист (turist)
• → Latvian: tūrists
• → Lithuanian: turistas
• → Macedonian: турист (turist)
• → Norwegian: turist
  • → Northern Sami: turista, durista
• → Occitan: torista
• → Polish: turysta
• → Portuguese: turista
• → Russian: турист (turist)
• → Serbo-Croatian: turist / турист
• → Slovak: turista
• → Slovene: turist
• → Spanish: turista
  • → English: turista
• → Swedish: turist
• → Tagalog: turista
• → Turkmen: turist
• → Ukrainian: турист (turyst)
• → Uzbek: turist
• → Welsh: twrist
• → Yiddish: טוריסט (turist)

Translations

someone who travels for pleasure

Albanian: turist (sq) m Amharic: ቱሪስት (turist) Arabic: سَائِح m (sāʔiḥ), سَائِحَة f (sāʔiḥa) Egyptian Arabic: سايح m (sāyiḥ) Armenian: զբոսաշրջիկ (hy) (zbosašrǰik), տուրիստ (hy) (turist) Asturian: turista m or f Azerbaijani: turist (az), səyyah (az), səyahətçi Belarusian: туры́ст m (turýst), туры́стка f (turýstka) Bengali: পর্যটক (bn) (porjoṭok) Bulgarian: тури́ст (bg) m (turíst), тури́стка f (turístka) Burmese: ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသည် (my) (kambhahlany.hka.ri:sany), ခရီးသည် (my) (hka.ri:sany), တူးရစ် (tu:rac), တိုရစ် (tuirac) Catalan: turista (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 旅游者 (zh) (lǚyóuzhě), 游客 (zh) (yóukè), 游人 (zh) (yóurén), 觀光客／观光客 (zh) (guānguāngkè) Czech: turista (cs) m, turistika (cs) f Danish: turist (da) Dutch: toerist (nl) m, toeriste (nl) f Esperanto: turisto Estonian: turist Finnish: turisti (fi), matkailija (fi) French: touriste (fr) m or f Galician: turista (gl) m or f Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi) German: Tourist (de) m, Touristin (de) f, Vergnügungsreisender m, Vergnügungsreisende f, Reisender (de) m, Reisende (de) f Greek: τουρίστας (el) m (tourístas), τουρίστρια (el) f (tourístria) Hebrew: תייר \ תַיָר m (tayár) Hindi: पर्यटक (hi) m (paryaṭak), टूरिस्ट m (ṭūrisṭ) Hungarian: turista (hu) Icelandic: ferðamaður (is) m Ido: turisto (io) Indonesian: turis (id), wisatawan (id) Irish: turasóir m, cuairteoir m, fámaire m Italian: turista (it) m or f Japanese: 旅行者 (ja) (りょこうしゃ, ryokōsha), 観光客 (ja) (かんこうきゃく, kankōkyaku), ツーリスト (ja) (tsūrisuto) Kazakh: турист (turist), саяхатшы (saäxatşy), серуенші (seruenşı) Khmer: អ្នកទេសចរ (nĕək teihsaʼcɑɑ), ទេសចរ (teihsaʼcɑɑ) Korean: 관광객(觀光客) (ko) (gwan'gwanggaek), 여행자(旅行者) (ko) (yeohaengja), 려행자(旅行者) (ryeohaengja) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: турист (ky) (turist), саякатчы (ky) (sayakatcı) Lao: ນັກທ່ອງທ່ຽວ (nak thǭng thiāu) Latvian: tūrists m, tūriste f Lithuanian: turistas (lt) m, turistė f, keliautojas m, keliautoja f Luganda: omulambuzi Luhya: omtali Macedonian: тури́ст m (turíst), тури́стка f (turístka) Malay: pelancong Maori: tūruhi Marathi: पर्यटक m or f (paryaṭak) Mòcheno: turist m Mongolian: Cyrillic: жуулчин (mn) (žuulčin), турист (turist) Norman: touriste m or f Norwegian: Bokmål: turist m Occitan: torista m or f Pashto: سياح m (sayāh), ټوريسټ m (ṭorísṭ) Persian: توریست (fa) (turist), سیاح (fa) (sayyâh) Polish: turysta (pl) m, turystka (pl) f Portuguese: turista (pt) m or f Romanian: turist (ro) m, turistă (ro) f Russian: тури́ст (ru) m (turíst), тури́стка (ru) f (turístka), путеше́ственник (ru) m (putešéstvennik), путеше́ственница (ru) f (putešéstvennica) Rwanda-Rundi: ingezi Scottish Gaelic: neach-turais m or f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ту̀рист m, ту̀ристкиња f Roman: tùrist (sh) m, tùristkinja (sh) f Sinhalese: සංචාරක (saṁcāraka) Slovak: turista m, turistika f Slovene: turȋst (sl) m, turistka f Spanish: turista (es) m or f, guiri (es) m or f Swahili: mtalii (sw) Swedish: turist (sv) c Tagalog: turista (tl) Tajik: сайёҳ (tg) (sayyoh) Thai: นักท่องเที่ยว (th) (nák-tɔ̂ng-tîao) Tibetan: ཡུལ་སྐོར་བ (yul skor ba) Turkish: turist (tr), gezgin (tr), gezici (tr), gezmen (tr), seyyah (tr) Turkmen: turist, syýahatçy Ukrainian: тури́ст m (turýst), тури́стка f (turýstka) Urdu: سیاح (ur) m (sayyāh), ٹورسٹ (ur) m (ṭūrisṭ) Uyghur: ساياھەتچى (ug) (sayahetchi) Uzbek: turist (uz), sayyoh (uz), sayohatchi (uz) Vietnamese: khách du lịch Volapük: (♂♀) töran (vo), (♂) hitöran, (♀) jitöran Welsh: teithiwr (cy) m, twrist m Yiddish: טוריסט m (turist) Zhuang: youzhek

Verb

tourist (third-person singular simple present tourists, present participle touristing, simple past and past participle touristed)

1. (intransitive) To travel as a tourist.
   • 2020 November 4, Sarah Firshein, “Forget Long Weekends: During the Pandemic It’s All About Short Weeks”, in The New York Times‎:

     “You can’t go touristing anymore like you used to, but weekends away — traditionally crammed into sneaking out of work slightly early on a Friday in a dash to have some repose — now mean heading out on a Wednesday night, logging on to work and coming back Monday night,” said Tom Caton, the co-founder and chief revenue officer of AirDNA […]

Translations

to travel as a tourist

Hungarian: turistáskodik (hu) Portuguese: turistar (informal)

Further reading

• Tourism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia