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: one that makes a tour for pleasure or culture
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tourist
adjective or adverb
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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Most of the clientele were families of Asian tourists, talking neither to us nor among themselves.
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Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Funiculars are often found in hilly cities, mountain resorts, or tourist areas where traditional trains or buses would struggle with steep gradients.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
The funicular is popular with tourists, but is also used daily by city residents.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Lady Gaga and Tim Burton chose an island built using pre-Hispanic farming methods in Xochimilco, a tourist area in the south of Mexico City, as the setting to seal a new collaboration between the pop superstar and the famed film director.
—Natalia Cano, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
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Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Funiculars are often found in hilly cities, mountain resorts, or tourist areas where traditional trains or buses would struggle with steep gradients.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
The funicular is popular with tourists, but is also used daily by city residents.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Lady Gaga and Tim Burton chose an island built using pre-Hispanic farming methods in Xochimilco, a tourist area in the south of Mexico City, as the setting to seal a new collaboration between the pop superstar and the famed film director.
—Natalia Cano, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Tourist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourist. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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