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Itinerant vs Displaced - What's the difference?

itinerant | displaced |

As a noun itinerant

is a homeless person.

As an adjective itinerant

is which travels to perform its functions.

As a verb displaced is

(displace).

itinerant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Habitually travelling from place to place.
  • an itinerant preacher or peddler
  • * Blackstone
  • The king's own courts were then itinerant , being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who travels from place to place.
  • (Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
  • displaced

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (displace)
  • Derived terms

    * displaced person

    displace

    English

    Verb

    (displac)
  • To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • Derived terms

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