excursionist

1. 1.

   a tourist who is visiting sights of interest

   Synonymssightseertripperrubberneck

   Broadertourist

Other forms of excursionist

plural

excursionists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about excursionist

What does excursionist mean?

excursionist means "a tourist who is visiting sights of interest".

How many syllables are in excursionist?

excursionist has 5 syllables: ex-cur-si-o-nist. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for excursionist?

Close synonyms include sightseer, tripper, rubberneck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is excursionist a common word?

excursionist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.