Is there any word to describe a person that likes to travel a lot?
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Is there any accurate word to describes a person that likes to travel a lot? I'm looking for something synonymous with travel obsessed.
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I am crazy about travel, I am a complete _________.
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Is there any accurate word to describes a person that likes to travel a lot? I'm looking for something synonymous with travel obsessed.
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I am crazy about travel, I am a complete _________.
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What is "obsessed travel"?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
Also, you have used the right tags but not taken any notice of the checklists in the tag info (again). Please do that.
– Andrew Leach♦
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Travelholic is a neologism that appears to be gainig traction. It means "addicted to travel": travel.cnn.com/pros-and-perils-being-travelholic-941106
– user66974
Feb 10 '17 at 18:37
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@Andrew, could u help me with that??
– Minz
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It's enough to undo my unilateral hold, but the tag info contains lots of hints on how to write a good question, including how you will judge what is "perfect". How do people who answer know what sort of word you are looking for?
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Is there any accurate word to describes a person that likes to travel a lot? I'm looking for something synonymous with travel obsessed.
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I am crazy about travel, I am a complete _________.
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asked Feb 10 '17 at 18:31
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Is there any accurate word to describes a person that likes to travel a lot? I'm looking for something synonymous with travel obsessed.
Example:
I am crazy about travel, I am a complete _________.
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What is "obsessed travel"?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
Also, you have used the right tags but not taken any notice of the checklists in the tag info (again). Please do that.
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
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Travelholic is a neologism that appears to be gainig traction. It means "addicted to travel": travel.cnn.com/pros-and-perils-being-travelholic-941106
– user66974
Feb 10 '17 at 18:37
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@Andrew, could u help me with that??
– Minz
Feb 10 '17 at 18:44
3
It's enough to undo my unilateral hold, but the tag info contains lots of hints on how to write a good question, including how you will judge what is "perfect". How do people who answer know what sort of word you are looking for?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:55
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What is "obsessed travel"?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
Also, you have used the right tags but not taken any notice of the checklists in the tag info (again). Please do that.
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
5
Travelholic is a neologism that appears to be gainig traction. It means "addicted to travel": travel.cnn.com/pros-and-perils-being-travelholic-941106
– user66974
Feb 10 '17 at 18:37
1
@Andrew, could u help me with that??
– Minz
Feb 10 '17 at 18:44
3
It's enough to undo my unilateral hold, but the tag info contains lots of hints on how to write a good question, including how you will judge what is "perfect". How do people who answer know what sort of word you are looking for?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:55
What is "obsessed travel"?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
What is "obsessed travel"?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
Also, you have used the right tags but not taken any notice of the checklists in the tag info (again). Please do that.
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
Also, you have used the right tags but not taken any notice of the checklists in the tag info (again). Please do that.
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
5
5
Travelholic is a neologism that appears to be gainig traction. It means "addicted to travel": travel.cnn.com/pros-and-perils-being-travelholic-941106
– user66974
Feb 10 '17 at 18:37
Travelholic is a neologism that appears to be gainig traction. It means "addicted to travel": travel.cnn.com/pros-and-perils-being-travelholic-941106
– user66974
Feb 10 '17 at 18:37
1
1
@Andrew, could u help me with that??
– Minz
Feb 10 '17 at 18:44
@Andrew, could u help me with that??
– Minz
Feb 10 '17 at 18:44
3
3
It's enough to undo my unilateral hold, but the tag info contains lots of hints on how to write a good question, including how you will judge what is "perfect". How do people who answer know what sort of word you are looking for?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:55
It's enough to undo my unilateral hold, but the tag info contains lots of hints on how to write a good question, including how you will judge what is "perfect". How do people who answer know what sort of word you are looking for?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:55
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Perhaps a bit old fashioned, a globetrotter is a passionate/inveterate traveller.
For example, "To fund their journey, many globetrotters decide to find casual jobs abroad".
answered Feb 10 '17 at 22:46
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Depending upon how you travel, you have a few options. A "vagabond" is someone who travels from place to place, but with the implication that they do not have a permanent home to go back to. A "rover" is one who roves from place to place, synonymous with wanderer, but this may be easily confused with the more modern definition of rover, as in the mars or lunar rovers. The word "nomad" would likely be best understood by the general public for the meaning you desire. While it literally refers to a person who has no fixed home and moves from place to place, as with the nomads of the Mongolian steppes, it is commonly used to refer to someone who goes from place to place. All of these words, however, have connotations of having no permanent home; in place of a noun, it may work better for you to say that you have "wanderlust", or an urge to travel.
answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
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Thanks, Now m spoilt for choice, Can i use "Nomad" to describe if someone is passionate/Crazy about traveling?
– Minz
Feb 11 '17 at 4:14
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For that I would use rover, or say they have wanderlust
– Cameron
Feb 11 '17 at 5:06
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You can call such a person a travel enthusiast or for more impact, a travel freak.
I am crazy about travel, I am a complete travel
freak.
Infoplease:
freak
-n.
6. Slang.
a. a person who has withdrawn from normal, rational behavior and activities to pursue one interest or obsession: a drug freak.
b. a devoted fan or follower; enthusiast: a baseball freak.
answered Feb 11 '17 at 16:28
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Wayfarer : a traveler especially on foot
Examples of wayfarer in a Sentence:
One of the great wayfarers of American folklore, Johnny Appleseed wandered across the country, always planting apple seeds.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wayfarer
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The OP might be able to call him/her self an explorer. Even today, when every square meter has been mapped from space, there are things to explore from graffiti to fusion cusisines to changing -- and rigid -- customs to how ecosystems and the creatures in them are responding to the stresses of human activity.
The short definition of explorer, from Cambridge Dictionary is:
a person who travels to places where no one has ever been to learn
about them.
That is too restrictive a definition.
Merriam Webster is better
one that explores; especially a person who travels in search of
geographical or scientific information
The Oxford English Dictionary has the best definition for the purposes of this answer:
b. A person who examines, investigates or studies something
To be an explorer, you must go where few other travelers go and not on a packaged tour. I'll use northern Europe as an example. Yes, you can go to Copenhagen and Stockholm and Oslo. But you also must stay in Tromso in the far north of Norway in the middle of winter, live with the Lapps as they live for several weeks, tour the Global Seed Storage Vault in Svalbard, and, if you are physically capable and experienced, hike Kungsleden. Wangling a volunteer slot on a scientific survey or with a group working with recent refugees would also be the mark of an explorer.
All three definitions say that the explorer is in search of information. The modern explorer may or may not have a specific focus in mind when she sets out Even if she doesn't have a purpose at the beginning, if she is an explorer, that focus will be developing, however slowly, during the course of her travels.
I'm not giving links to any of these places, because an explorer will do his own research, map out his own routes and learn the essential words and phrases of the local languages (although in Scandinavia it will be hard to find someone who does not speak English). I'd better stop, but one more thought: an explorer takes pictures that are actually interesting to other people, i.e., no (or very few) selfies.
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Peri- is the Greek word for "around," and peripatetic is an adjective that describes someone who likes to walk or travel around. Peripatetic is also a noun for a person who travels from one place to another or moves around a lot.
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Perhaps a bit old fashioned, a globetrotter is a passionate/inveterate traveller.
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Perhaps a bit old fashioned, a globetrotter is a passionate/inveterate traveller.
For example, "To fund their journey, many globetrotters decide to find casual jobs abroad".
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Depending upon how you travel, you have a few options. A "vagabond" is someone who travels from place to place, but with the implication that they do not have a permanent home to go back to. A "rover" is one who roves from place to place, synonymous with wanderer, but this may be easily confused with the more modern definition of rover, as in the mars or lunar rovers. The word "nomad" would likely be best understood by the general public for the meaning you desire. While it literally refers to a person who has no fixed home and moves from place to place, as with the nomads of the Mongolian steppes, it is commonly used to refer to someone who goes from place to place. All of these words, however, have connotations of having no permanent home; in place of a noun, it may work better for you to say that you have "wanderlust", or an urge to travel.
answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
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Thanks, Now m spoilt for choice, Can i use "Nomad" to describe if someone is passionate/Crazy about traveling?
– Minz
Feb 11 '17 at 4:14
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For that I would use rover, or say they have wanderlust
– Cameron
Feb 11 '17 at 5:06
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Depending upon how you travel, you have a few options. A "vagabond" is someone who travels from place to place, but with the implication that they do not have a permanent home to go back to. A "rover" is one who roves from place to place, synonymous with wanderer, but this may be easily confused with the more modern definition of rover, as in the mars or lunar rovers. The word "nomad" would likely be best understood by the general public for the meaning you desire. While it literally refers to a person who has no fixed home and moves from place to place, as with the nomads of the Mongolian steppes, it is commonly used to refer to someone who goes from place to place. All of these words, however, have connotations of having no permanent home; in place of a noun, it may work better for you to say that you have "wanderlust", or an urge to travel.
answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
Cameron
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Thanks, Now m spoilt for choice, Can i use "Nomad" to describe if someone is passionate/Crazy about traveling?
– Minz
Feb 11 '17 at 4:14
1
For that I would use rover, or say they have wanderlust
– Cameron
Feb 11 '17 at 5:06
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up vote
2
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up vote
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Depending upon how you travel, you have a few options. A "vagabond" is someone who travels from place to place, but with the implication that they do not have a permanent home to go back to. A "rover" is one who roves from place to place, synonymous with wanderer, but this may be easily confused with the more modern definition of rover, as in the mars or lunar rovers. The word "nomad" would likely be best understood by the general public for the meaning you desire. While it literally refers to a person who has no fixed home and moves from place to place, as with the nomads of the Mongolian steppes, it is commonly used to refer to someone who goes from place to place. All of these words, however, have connotations of having no permanent home; in place of a noun, it may work better for you to say that you have "wanderlust", or an urge to travel.
answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
Cameron
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Depending upon how you travel, you have a few options. A "vagabond" is someone who travels from place to place, but with the implication that they do not have a permanent home to go back to. A "rover" is one who roves from place to place, synonymous with wanderer, but this may be easily confused with the more modern definition of rover, as in the mars or lunar rovers. The word "nomad" would likely be best understood by the general public for the meaning you desire. While it literally refers to a person who has no fixed home and moves from place to place, as with the nomads of the Mongolian steppes, it is commonly used to refer to someone who goes from place to place. All of these words, however, have connotations of having no permanent home; in place of a noun, it may work better for you to say that you have "wanderlust", or an urge to travel.
answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
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answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
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answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
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answered Feb 10 '17 at 19:30
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Thanks, Now m spoilt for choice, Can i use "Nomad" to describe if someone is passionate/Crazy about traveling?
– Minz
Feb 11 '17 at 4:14
1
For that I would use rover, or say they have wanderlust
– Cameron
Feb 11 '17 at 5:06
add a comment |
Thanks, Now m spoilt for choice, Can i use "Nomad" to describe if someone is passionate/Crazy about traveling?
– Minz
Feb 11 '17 at 4:14
1
For that I would use rover, or say they have wanderlust
– Cameron
Feb 11 '17 at 5:06
Thanks, Now m spoilt for choice, Can i use "Nomad" to describe if someone is passionate/Crazy about traveling?
– Minz
Feb 11 '17 at 4:14
Thanks, Now m spoilt for choice, Can i use "Nomad" to describe if someone is passionate/Crazy about traveling?
– Minz
Feb 11 '17 at 4:14
1
1
For that I would use rover, or say they have wanderlust
– Cameron
Feb 11 '17 at 5:06
For that I would use rover, or say they have wanderlust
– Cameron
Feb 11 '17 at 5:06
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You can call such a person a travel enthusiast or for more impact, a travel freak.
I am crazy about travel, I am a complete travel
freak.
Infoplease:
freak
-n.
6. Slang.
a. a person who has withdrawn from normal, rational behavior and activities to pursue one interest or obsession: a drug freak.
b. a devoted fan or follower; enthusiast: a baseball freak.
answered Feb 11 '17 at 16:28
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You can call such a person a travel enthusiast or for more impact, a travel freak.
I am crazy about travel, I am a complete travel
freak.
Infoplease:
freak
-n.
6. Slang.
a. a person who has withdrawn from normal, rational behavior and activities to pursue one interest or obsession: a drug freak.
b. a devoted fan or follower; enthusiast: a baseball freak.
answered Feb 11 '17 at 16:28
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You can call such a person a travel enthusiast or for more impact, a travel freak.
I am crazy about travel, I am a complete travel
freak.
Infoplease:
freak
-n.
6. Slang.
a. a person who has withdrawn from normal, rational behavior and activities to pursue one interest or obsession: a drug freak.
b. a devoted fan or follower; enthusiast: a baseball freak.
answered Feb 11 '17 at 16:28
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You can call such a person a travel enthusiast or for more impact, a travel freak.
I am crazy about travel, I am a complete travel
freak.
Infoplease:
freak
-n.
6. Slang.
a. a person who has withdrawn from normal, rational behavior and activities to pursue one interest or obsession: a drug freak.
b. a devoted fan or follower; enthusiast: a baseball freak.
answered Feb 11 '17 at 16:28
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answered Feb 11 '17 at 16:28
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Wayfarer : a traveler especially on foot
Examples of wayfarer in a Sentence:
One of the great wayfarers of American folklore, Johnny Appleseed wandered across the country, always planting apple seeds.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wayfarer
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Wayfarer : a traveler especially on foot
Examples of wayfarer in a Sentence:
One of the great wayfarers of American folklore, Johnny Appleseed wandered across the country, always planting apple seeds.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wayfarer
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Wayfarer : a traveler especially on foot
Examples of wayfarer in a Sentence:
One of the great wayfarers of American folklore, Johnny Appleseed wandered across the country, always planting apple seeds.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wayfarer
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Wayfarer : a traveler especially on foot
Examples of wayfarer in a Sentence:
One of the great wayfarers of American folklore, Johnny Appleseed wandered across the country, always planting apple seeds.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wayfarer
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The OP might be able to call him/her self an explorer. Even today, when every square meter has been mapped from space, there are things to explore from graffiti to fusion cusisines to changing -- and rigid -- customs to how ecosystems and the creatures in them are responding to the stresses of human activity.
The short definition of explorer, from Cambridge Dictionary is:
a person who travels to places where no one has ever been to learn
about them.
That is too restrictive a definition.
Merriam Webster is better
one that explores; especially a person who travels in search of
geographical or scientific information
The Oxford English Dictionary has the best definition for the purposes of this answer:
b. A person who examines, investigates or studies something
To be an explorer, you must go where few other travelers go and not on a packaged tour. I'll use northern Europe as an example. Yes, you can go to Copenhagen and Stockholm and Oslo. But you also must stay in Tromso in the far north of Norway in the middle of winter, live with the Lapps as they live for several weeks, tour the Global Seed Storage Vault in Svalbard, and, if you are physically capable and experienced, hike Kungsleden. Wangling a volunteer slot on a scientific survey or with a group working with recent refugees would also be the mark of an explorer.
All three definitions say that the explorer is in search of information. The modern explorer may or may not have a specific focus in mind when she sets out Even if she doesn't have a purpose at the beginning, if she is an explorer, that focus will be developing, however slowly, during the course of her travels.
I'm not giving links to any of these places, because an explorer will do his own research, map out his own routes and learn the essential words and phrases of the local languages (although in Scandinavia it will be hard to find someone who does not speak English). I'd better stop, but one more thought: an explorer takes pictures that are actually interesting to other people, i.e., no (or very few) selfies.
answered Feb 11 '17 at 15:24
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The OP might be able to call him/her self an explorer. Even today, when every square meter has been mapped from space, there are things to explore from graffiti to fusion cusisines to changing -- and rigid -- customs to how ecosystems and the creatures in them are responding to the stresses of human activity.
The short definition of explorer, from Cambridge Dictionary is:
a person who travels to places where no one has ever been to learn
about them.
That is too restrictive a definition.
Merriam Webster is better
one that explores; especially a person who travels in search of
geographical or scientific information
The Oxford English Dictionary has the best definition for the purposes of this answer:
b. A person who examines, investigates or studies something
To be an explorer, you must go where few other travelers go and not on a packaged tour. I'll use northern Europe as an example. Yes, you can go to Copenhagen and Stockholm and Oslo. But you also must stay in Tromso in the far north of Norway in the middle of winter, live with the Lapps as they live for several weeks, tour the Global Seed Storage Vault in Svalbard, and, if you are physically capable and experienced, hike Kungsleden. Wangling a volunteer slot on a scientific survey or with a group working with recent refugees would also be the mark of an explorer.
All three definitions say that the explorer is in search of information. The modern explorer may or may not have a specific focus in mind when she sets out Even if she doesn't have a purpose at the beginning, if she is an explorer, that focus will be developing, however slowly, during the course of her travels.
I'm not giving links to any of these places, because an explorer will do his own research, map out his own routes and learn the essential words and phrases of the local languages (although in Scandinavia it will be hard to find someone who does not speak English). I'd better stop, but one more thought: an explorer takes pictures that are actually interesting to other people, i.e., no (or very few) selfies.
answered Feb 11 '17 at 15:24
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The OP might be able to call him/her self an explorer. Even today, when every square meter has been mapped from space, there are things to explore from graffiti to fusion cusisines to changing -- and rigid -- customs to how ecosystems and the creatures in them are responding to the stresses of human activity.
The short definition of explorer, from Cambridge Dictionary is:
a person who travels to places where no one has ever been to learn
about them.
That is too restrictive a definition.
Merriam Webster is better
one that explores; especially a person who travels in search of
geographical or scientific information
The Oxford English Dictionary has the best definition for the purposes of this answer:
b. A person who examines, investigates or studies something
To be an explorer, you must go where few other travelers go and not on a packaged tour. I'll use northern Europe as an example. Yes, you can go to Copenhagen and Stockholm and Oslo. But you also must stay in Tromso in the far north of Norway in the middle of winter, live with the Lapps as they live for several weeks, tour the Global Seed Storage Vault in Svalbard, and, if you are physically capable and experienced, hike Kungsleden. Wangling a volunteer slot on a scientific survey or with a group working with recent refugees would also be the mark of an explorer.
All three definitions say that the explorer is in search of information. The modern explorer may or may not have a specific focus in mind when she sets out Even if she doesn't have a purpose at the beginning, if she is an explorer, that focus will be developing, however slowly, during the course of her travels.
I'm not giving links to any of these places, because an explorer will do his own research, map out his own routes and learn the essential words and phrases of the local languages (although in Scandinavia it will be hard to find someone who does not speak English). I'd better stop, but one more thought: an explorer takes pictures that are actually interesting to other people, i.e., no (or very few) selfies.
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The OP might be able to call him/her self an explorer. Even today, when every square meter has been mapped from space, there are things to explore from graffiti to fusion cusisines to changing -- and rigid -- customs to how ecosystems and the creatures in them are responding to the stresses of human activity.
The short definition of explorer, from Cambridge Dictionary is:
a person who travels to places where no one has ever been to learn
about them.
That is too restrictive a definition.
Merriam Webster is better
one that explores; especially a person who travels in search of
geographical or scientific information
The Oxford English Dictionary has the best definition for the purposes of this answer:
b. A person who examines, investigates or studies something
To be an explorer, you must go where few other travelers go and not on a packaged tour. I'll use northern Europe as an example. Yes, you can go to Copenhagen and Stockholm and Oslo. But you also must stay in Tromso in the far north of Norway in the middle of winter, live with the Lapps as they live for several weeks, tour the Global Seed Storage Vault in Svalbard, and, if you are physically capable and experienced, hike Kungsleden. Wangling a volunteer slot on a scientific survey or with a group working with recent refugees would also be the mark of an explorer.
All three definitions say that the explorer is in search of information. The modern explorer may or may not have a specific focus in mind when she sets out Even if she doesn't have a purpose at the beginning, if she is an explorer, that focus will be developing, however slowly, during the course of her travels.
I'm not giving links to any of these places, because an explorer will do his own research, map out his own routes and learn the essential words and phrases of the local languages (although in Scandinavia it will be hard to find someone who does not speak English). I'd better stop, but one more thought: an explorer takes pictures that are actually interesting to other people, i.e., no (or very few) selfies.
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Peri- is the Greek word for "around," and peripatetic is an adjective that describes someone who likes to walk or travel around. Peripatetic is also a noun for a person who travels from one place to another or moves around a lot.
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Peri- is the Greek word for "around," and peripatetic is an adjective that describes someone who likes to walk or travel around. Peripatetic is also a noun for a person who travels from one place to another or moves around a lot.
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What is "obsessed travel"?
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
Also, you have used the right tags but not taken any notice of the checklists in the tag info (again). Please do that.
– Andrew Leach♦
Feb 10 '17 at 18:33
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Travelholic is a neologism that appears to be gainig traction. It means "addicted to travel": travel.cnn.com/pros-and-perils-being-travelholic-941106
– user66974
Feb 10 '17 at 18:37
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@Andrew, could u help me with that??
– Minz
Feb 10 '17 at 18:44
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It's enough to undo my unilateral hold, but the tag info contains lots of hints on how to write a good question, including how you will judge what is "perfect". How do people who answer know what sort of word you are looking for?
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