Traveller vs Nomad - What's the difference?
traveller | nomad |
One who travels, especially to distant lands.
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= (label) A modern-day gypsy, tinker, caravan dweller, etc.
(label) A member of the nomadic ethnic minority.
A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
(label) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
A member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= A wanderer.
As nouns the difference between traveller and nomad
is that traveller is one who travels, especially to distant lands while nomad is a member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.traveller
English
(wikipedia traveller)Alternative forms
* traveler (US)Noun
(en noun)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
See also
* backpacker * Irish Traveller * tourist * voyagernomad
English
Noun
(wikipedia nomad) (en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads , wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}