Itinerant vs Straggler - What's the difference?
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Habitually travelling from place to place.
* Blackstone
One who travels from place to place.
(Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs.
One who falls behind the rest.
One who rambles without any settled direction.
A roving vagabond.
Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
Something that stands alone or by itself.
Itinerant is a related term of straggler.
As nouns the difference between itinerant and straggler
is that itinerant is a homeless person while straggler is one who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs.As an adjective itinerant
is which travels to perform its functions.itinerant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an itinerant preacher or peddler
- 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.