Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is on vacation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is taking a vacation; especially, one who is journeying for pleasure; an excursionist.
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- noun Someone who is on
vacation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work
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Examples
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When baseball is over he jokes he'll become "a professional vacationist," but deep down he's always had a desire to be an architect.
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It was like a walking-stick that, when the mountain-tramp is over, the vacationist puts on the wall as a memento.
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand
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A returned vacationist tells us that he was fishing in a pond one day when a country boy who had been watching him from a distance approached him and asked.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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This volume of the Pleasure and Profit Library is offered to the hunter, trapper, fisher, vacationist and out of doors people in general.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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The beauty and natural charm of the region around Washington enchants the vacationist.
Drummond's Pictorial Atlas of North Carolina. Albert Y. Drummond 1924
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To each returning vacationist it seems as if everyone in town must be interested in what he or she did during the summer.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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They will mark the return to the city of thousands and thousands of vacationists after two months or two weeks of feverish recuperation and there is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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Bartlett, the "dudey" vacationist from the city, whose father had, years ago, been Beriah Higgins's partner in the fish business?
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Travel + Leisure, the world's leading travel magazine brand, and Luxury Link, the leader in online luxury travel, announced the launch of Vacationist (www. vacationist.com), an invitation-only, private-sale travel website for luxury travelers, at the American Express Publishing Luxury Summit at the Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas.
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