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: one that makes a tour for pleasure or culture
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tourist
adjective or adverb
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Examples of tourist in a Sentence
The museums attract a lot of tourists.
In the summer the town is filled with tourists.
The tourists defeated the home side.
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In other stories a tour guide holds tourists hostage in a creepy cemetery and a teenager tries to find her mother, missing from their hotel in Cancun.
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
One scene in the original film, in which Rocky goes on a training run and ends by sprinting up the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, became famous, inspiring tourists to run up the stairs, and prompting tributes and parodies of the scene in other films and TV shows.
—Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
In the meantime, a metal gangway is being erected over the empty fountain for tourists to get a close view of the fountain’s sculpture Oceanus, the Titan God of Earth, depicted with galloping horses.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Two of our iconic spots for tourists to take photos — Monument Circle and the Statehouse — was surrounded by fencing, dumpsters and portable toilets.
—Arika Herron, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
One scene in the original film, in which Rocky goes on a training run and ends by sprinting up the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, became famous, inspiring tourists to run up the stairs, and prompting tributes and parodies of the scene in other films and TV shows.
—Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
In the meantime, a metal gangway is being erected over the empty fountain for tourists to get a close view of the fountain’s sculpture Oceanus, the Titan God of Earth, depicted with galloping horses.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Two of our iconic spots for tourists to take photos — Monument Circle and the Statehouse — was surrounded by fencing, dumpsters and portable toilets.
—Arika Herron, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Tourist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourist. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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