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PRONUNCIATION OF TRAVELLING PEOPLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRAVELLING PEOPLE

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Travelling people is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRAVELLING PEOPLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

travelling people

Irish Travellers

Irish Travellers or Pavee, also called Tinkers or Gypsies, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group of Irish origin, who maintain a set of traditions. Although predominantly English speaking, some also use Shelta and other similar cants. They live mostly in Ireland as well as having large numbers in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Around 10,000 people in the United States are descendants of Travellers who left Ireland, mostly during the period between 1845 and 1860 during the Great Famine. About 2,500 of them live in Murphy Village, a community outside North Augusta, South Carolina.

Definition of travelling people in the English dictionary

The definition of travelling people in the dictionary is Gypsies or other itinerant people: a term used esp by such people of themselves.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRAVELLING PEOPLE

travel-stained
travel-weary
travelator
traveled
traveler´s check
travelled
traveller
traveller´s cheque
traveller´s joy
travelling
travelling clock
travelling expenses
travelling folk
travelling library
travelling salesman
travelling wave
travelling-wave tube
travelog
travelogue
travels

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRAVELLING PEOPLE

beautiful people
boat people
businesspeople
chosen people
Constantinople
country people
craftspeople
good people
House of the People
lay people
little people
peculiar people
people
salespeople
spokespeople
street people
the beautiful people
the good people
the people
townspeople
tradespeople

Synonyms and antonyms of travelling people in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «travelling people» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRAVELLING PEOPLE

Find out the translation of travelling people to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of travelling people from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «travelling people» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

旅行的人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

personas que viajan
570 millions of speakers

English

travelling people
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यात्रा लोगों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يسافر الناس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Путешествия люди
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

viajando pessoas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্রমণ মানুষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gens du voyage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Orang yang melancong
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Reisen Menschen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

旅行人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

여행하는 사람들
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong lelungan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi du lịch người
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயணம் செய்யும் மக்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रवासी लोक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Seyahat eden insanlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

persone che viaggiano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podróżujących osób
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Подорожі люди
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

persoanele care călătoresc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταξιδεύουν οι άνθρωποι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

reis mense
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

resande personer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

reiser folk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of travelling people

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAVELLING PEOPLE»

The term «travelling people» is normally little used and occupies the 135.835 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of travelling people
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAVELLING PEOPLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «travelling people» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «travelling people» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about travelling people

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAVELLING PEOPLE»

Discover the use of travelling people in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to travelling people and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Summer Walkers: Travelling People and Pearl-Fishers in ...
'The Summer Walkers' is the name the crofters of Scotland's northwest Highlands gave the traveling people—the itinerant tinsmiths, horse-dealers, hawkers, and pearl-fishers—who made their living on the road.
Timothy Neat, 2002
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Human Rights Brought Home: Socio-legal Perspectives on Human ...
Table 4: Likely Travelling People Related Litigation Resulting from the HRA As will be seen from the above table a significant majority of the respondents considered that the Act would increase the risk of legal challenge by travelling people.
Simon Halliday, Patrick Delbert Schmidt, 2004
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Poverty and Inequality: Applying an Equality Dimension to ...
154 McKeown, K. and McGarth, B. (1996), Accommodating Travelling People: A study of Accommodation for Travelling People in the Greater Dublin Area, Dublin: CROSSCARE, p.13 155 Sheehan, E. (ed., 2000), op. cit., p.129 156 Barry, J., ...
‎2003
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Facts and Figures on Poverty
A 1 986 ESRI report stated that Travellers are a uniquely disadvantaged group: impoverished, under-educated, often despised and ostracised, they live on the margins of Irish society the circumstances of the Irish travelling people are ...
Combat Poverty Agency, 1999
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Reading the Graphic Surface: The Presense of the Book in ...
However, Johnson himself felt Travelling People to be flawed and (after 1967) would not allow it to be reprinted (see Johnson I973b: 22).5 This decision cannot have been taken lighdy by an author who, after his first major publication, ...
Glyn White, 2005
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Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook
... The Gypsies, Oxford and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1992 Gentleman, Hugh, Counting Travellers in Scotland: The 1992 Picture: Estimates of the Number, Distribution and Characteristics of Travelling People in Scotland in 1992, ...
Margaret Read MacDonald, 2013
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Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics of Culture
I think that Travelling People - that's the culture behind them ... were brought up where a lot of Travelling people travelled all over the country. Then Travelling people settled into cities, their children were going to school, but they still didn't wish ...
Jane Helleiner, 2003
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IYA 2009 Final Report
Communication within travelling team Distributing the information among the travelling people was not an easy task. Although travelling together, they were most of the time occupied during school activities, shared in two cars, in internet cafes ...
Russo, Pedro, Christensen, Lars Lindberg
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Change of air, or the philosophy of travelling;: being ...
... a very travelling people. They are almost as much enamoured of their country as of themselves — and a more patriotic compliment I could not pay them ! The English are every where — and English money makes the pot boil on every hearth ...
James Johnson, 1831
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
USE subject headings beginning with the word Traveling Travelling USE Travel Travelling People, Irish (Nomadic people) USE Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) Travelling People, Scottish (Nomadic people) USE Scottish Travellers (Nomadic  ...
Library of Congress, 2006

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAVELLING PEOPLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term travelling people is used in the context of the following news items.
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Inverness Caledonian Thistle in travelling people court bid
Inverness Caledonian Thistle are going to court in a bid to remove a settlement of travelling people from the club's home car park. The move comes ahead of the ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Traveller culture 'on verge of extinction'
It aims to celebrate and reflect on the culture of Highland travelling people, ... They not only give themselves a bad name, but they give historical travellers a bad ... «Scotsman, Jun 15»
3
French MPs vote to scrap special identity papers for travelling people
The lower house of France's parliament voted late Monday in favour of cancelling special travel permits that worked as identity cards for nomadic people known ... «RFI, Jun 15»
4
Canon David Perkins goes from no-hoper at Derby school to vicar …
It was quite moving to read the comments written by people in the books of ... regular pub gigs in and around Derby, then another folk group, Travelling People. «Derby Telegraph, Jan 15»
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an ideal solution for travelling people
My Passport Wireless is an ideal solution for travelling people. Coupled with a SD card slot and built-in battery, life goes faster with no wires attached. «gulfnews.com, Dec 14»
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The Travelling People to perform
Folk group The Travelling People are set to entertain at churches in both ... forward to our visit to the Isle of Man and hope that many people will come to see us ... «Isle of Man Today, May 14»
7
Court hearing over travelling people in Aberdeen
A court will be asked to grant an eviction order to move on travelling people who ... Several of the travellers told BBC Scotland they were considering moving on ... «BBC News, Apr 14»
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Folk fund-raiser at hall
A FOLK group are to perform at Clifton as part of a fund-raising drive for the village church. The Travelling People are a folk trio from South Derbyshire and the ... «Ashbourne News Telegraph, Feb 13»
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MSPs meet at Clinterty travelling people site near Aberdeen
A site for travelling people near Aberdeen has been playing host to a special meeting of MSPs as part on their inquiry into where such communities live. «BBC News, Feb 13»

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