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Traveller vs Nomad - What's the difference?

traveller | nomad |

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

Alternative forms

* traveler (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who travels, especially to distant lands.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=5, title= 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.}}
  • (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.
  • See also

    * backpacker * Irish Traveller * tourist * voyager

    nomad

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia nomad) (en noun)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • A wanderer.
  • Derived terms

    * grey nomad * nomade * nomadic * nomadism

    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , nòm?d, nomadi , nomáda, nomada , nomadu, nomadima , nomada, nomade , nomade, nomadi , nomadu, nomadima , nomadom, nomadima }}