globetrotter

See also: globe-trotter, globe trotter, and Globetrotter

English

Alternative forms

• globe trotter, globe-trotter

Etymology

From globe +‎ trotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡləʊbˌtɹɒtə(ɹ)/

Noun

globetrotter (plural globetrotters)

1. A person who travels often to faraway places.
   • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1:

     Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".

   • 1914, Joseph Conrad, Chance‎^[1], London: Methuen, →OCLC:

     “Any ship is that—for a reasonable man,” generalised Marlow in a conciliatory tone. “A sailor isn’t a globetrotter.”

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Possibly perceiving an expression of dubiosity on their faces the globetrotter went on, adhering to his adventures. —And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap. Knife in his back. Knife like that.

Descendants

• → Danish: globetrotter
• → French: globetrotteur
• → German: Globetrotter
• → Norwegian Bokmål: globetrotter
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: globetrotter
• → Swedish: globetrotter

Translations

person who travels often to faraway places

• Catalan: rodamón (ca) m or f
• Danish: globetrotter c
• Dutch: wereldreiziger (nl) m
• Esperanto: globtrotulo
• Finnish: maailmanmatkaaja (fi)
• French: globetrotteur (fr) m, bourlingueur (fr) m
• German: Weltenbummler (de) m, Weltenbummlerin (de) f, Globetrotter (de) m, Globetrotterin (de) f
• Hungarian: világjáró (hu)
• Italian: giramondo (it) m
• Japanese: グローブトロッター (gurōbutorottā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: globetrotter m

  Nynorsk: globetrotter m

• Polish: obieżyświat (pl) m
• Russian: путеше́ственник (ru) m (putešéstvennik), путеше́ственница (ru) f (putešéstvennica)
• Spanish: trotamundos (es) m
• Swedish: globetrotter (sv) c
• Turkish: seyyâh-ı âlem

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English globetrotter.

Noun

globetrotter m (definite singular globetrotteren, indefinite plural globetrottere, definite plural globetrotterne)

1. a globetrotter

Related terms

• globetrotte

Etymology 2

Verb

globetrotter

1. present of globetrotte

References

• “globetrotter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “globetrotter” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English globetrotter.

Noun

globetrotter m (definite singular globetrotteren, indefinite plural globetrotterar, definite plural globetrotterane)

1. a globetrotter

Usage notes

Also spelt globetrottar, perhaps unofficially.

References

• “globetrotter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.