Vocabulary building for my colleagues:
Peripatetic: Per-i-pa-tet-ic: |peripəˈtetik|
1. adj. - traveling from place to place, esp. working or or based in places for relatively short periods.
2. noun - a person who travels from place to place
ORIGIN with reference to Aristotle's practice of walking to and fro while teaching. Old French peripatetique, via Latin from Greek peripatētikos for "walking up and down."
Example: "She says she's decided to accept my peripatetic life." "She said you're pathetic?" "No peripatetic - there's a big difference."
Synonyms: Wandering, roving, roaming, migrant, migratory, nomadic, itinerant, traveling, unsettled.
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