globetrotterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

globe +‎ trotter

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡləʊbˌtɹɒtə(ɹ)/

名詞

globetrotter (複数形 globetrotters)

1. A person who travels often to faraway places.
   • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 1:

     Word-painting has become a science, and almost every corner of the globe has been described and traversed by that genus homo, the inevitable "globe-trotter".

   • 1914, Joseph Conrad, Chance‎^[1], London: Methuen, →OCLC:

     “Any ship is that—for a reasonable man,” generalised Marlow in a conciliatory tone. “A sailor isn’t a globetrotter.”

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Possibly perceiving an expression of dubiosity on their faces the globetrotter went on, adhering to his adventures. —And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap. Knife in his back. Knife like that.

派生した語

• → Danish: globetrotter
• → French: globetrotteur
• → German: Globetrotter
• → Norwegian Bokmål: globetrotter
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: globetrotter
• → Swedish: globetrotter