Tourist vs Resident - What's the difference?
tourist | resident |
Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business.
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, passage=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.}}
(derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
(sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.
Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
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As nouns the difference between tourist and resident
is that tourist is someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business while resident is person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area.As an adjective resident is
dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.tourist
English
(Tourism)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* touristic * tourist office * tourist trap * touristyresident
English
(wikipedia resident)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* permanent residentAdjective
(en adjective)- resident in the city or in the country
- He is our resident computer expert.
- stable and resident like a rock
- one there still resident as day and night