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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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Related article Venice is watching tourists’ every move Those 30 centimeters are the maximum the engineers estimate the land could be raised without destabilization.
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Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
Few cities garner as much packing anxiety for tourists as Paris, a fact I’m often reminded of after moving to the city in 2023.
—Kristy Alpert, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Japanese tourists coming in, leaving with bags of Nomo t-shirts.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 2 May 2025
After doing the same for herself during annual trips to Korea, in 2019 Seo began curating bespoke itineraries for beauty tourists as a side gig to her day job as an investment banker.
—Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 2 May 2025
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Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
Few cities garner as much packing anxiety for tourists as Paris, a fact I’m often reminded of after moving to the city in 2023.
—Kristy Alpert, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Japanese tourists coming in, leaving with bags of Nomo t-shirts.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 2 May 2025
After doing the same for herself during annual trips to Korea, in 2019 Seo began curating bespoke itineraries for beauty tourists as a side gig to her day job as an investment banker.
—Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 2 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for tourist
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“Tourist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourist. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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