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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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Every expedition there felt like an unpredictable game of hopscotch, leaping between a Cantonese-dominant China of the century past and one custom-built for American tourists.
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Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
The latest move by the city will target tourists’ wallets.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
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Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
The latest move by the city will target tourists’ wallets.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
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 4 May. 2024.
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