itinerants
People without roots
Itinerants are people who travel from place to place, especially for work.
The term often describes workers who move seasonally—migrant laborers following harvests, traveling salespeople working different territories, or preachers riding circuits.
The camp filled with itinerants looking for picking work.
The word can carry connotations of rootlessness or transience.
Those who drift aimlessly
- travelersPeople on trips
- nomadsUnsettled, roving people
- driftersAimless travelers, homeless rovers
- roamersThose who travel aimlessly
vagabonds · gypsies · Romani · tinkers · rootless · transients · wayfarers · peripatetic
Mobile small-scale merchants
- hawkersStreet sellers who shout
- tinkersMeddles amateurishly with mechanisms
- traveling salesmenMobile commercial representatives
- door-to-doorDirectly between residences
vendors · merchants · chapmen · mobile vendors · hucksters · drummers · cobblers
People moving for jobs
- seasonal workersEmployees hired temporarily
- farmhandsHired agricultural workers
- harvestersThose who gather crops
- pickersThose who harvest by hand
day laborers · braceros · fruit pickers · field hands · agricultural workers · crop workers · cotton pickers · temporary workers
Artists entertaining passersby outdoors
- buskersPublic space entertainers
- circus performersBig top entertainers
- troubadoursMedieval lyric poet-musicians
- minstrelsItinerant medieval performers
sideshow · roadshow · medicine shows · vaudeville · tent revivals · traveling troupes · juggling · acrobats
wanderers
Those who drift aimlessly
roamers · vagabonds · gypsies · Romani · tinkers · rootless · transients · wayfarers · peripatetic · homeless
peddlers
Mobile small-scale merchants
- hawkersStreet sellers who shout
- tinkersMeddles amateurishly with mechanisms
- traveling salesmenMobile commercial representatives
door-to-door · vendors · merchants · chapmen · mobile vendors · hucksters · drummers · cobblers
migrant workers
People moving for jobs
- seasonal workersEmployees hired temporarily
- farmhandsHired agricultural workers
- harvestersThose who gather crops
pickers · day laborers · braceros · fruit pickers · field hands · agricultural workers · crop workers · cotton pickers · temporary workers · hired hands
street performers
Artists entertaining passersby outdoors
- buskersPublic space entertainers
- circus performersBig top entertainers
- troubadoursMedieval lyric poet-musicians
minstrels · sideshow · roadshow · medicine shows · vaudeville · tent revivals · traveling troupes · juggling · acrobats · fortune tellers
- nomadsnomad, nomadism, Bedouin, wanderer, roaming
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- nomadic lifenomads, yurt, wanderers, tent, Bedouins
- roguesrogue, rogues, scoundrel, scoundrels, rascal
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
itinerantsresidents
People living somewhere
settlers · permanent residents · homebodies · householders · homeowners
itinerantslocals
Area's permanent inhabitants
townsfolk · community members · insiders · old-timers · pillars of the community
- itinerant workersEmployees moving between locations
- itinerant preacherNomadic religious orator