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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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Near the California border and just northeast of Lake Tahoe, the town is a popular summer tourist destination.
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Rio Yamat, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2025
And in a move that would have been unthinkable even a year ago, India just resumed offering tourist visas for Chinese citizens, ending a five-year freeze following deadly clashes in a disputed border area in 2020.
—Danish Manzoor Bhat, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
But Trump’s travel ban — and his regime’s willingness to detain and jail tourists — will discourage attendance.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 July 2025
The tourists are not real, either, but icons out of time: the lover Casanova, the ubiquitous Kilroy, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
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Rio Yamat, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2025
And in a move that would have been unthinkable even a year ago, India just resumed offering tourist visas for Chinese citizens, ending a five-year freeze following deadly clashes in a disputed border area in 2020.
—Danish Manzoor Bhat, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
But Trump’s travel ban — and his regime’s willingness to detain and jail tourists — will discourage attendance.
—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 July 2025
The tourists are not real, either, but icons out of time: the lover Casanova, the ubiquitous Kilroy, Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 25 July 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 6 Aug. 2025.
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