itinerary
Americannoun
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itineraries
plural
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a detailed plan for a journey, especially a list of places to visit; plan of travel.
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a line of travel; route.
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an account of a journey; record of travel.
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a book describing a route or routes of travel with information helpful to travelers; guidebook for travelers.
adjective
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of or relating to travel or travel routes.
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Obsolete. itinerant.
noun
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a plan or line of travel; route
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a record of a journey
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a guidebook for travellers
adjective
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of or relating to travel or routes of travel
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a less common word for itinerant
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of itinerary
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Late Latin itinerārium, noun use of neuter of itinerārius “of a journey,” from itiner-, stem of iter “journey” ( see iter) + -ārius -ary
Explanation
An itinerary is your travel plan — where you will go and when you will be there. The term is also sometimes used for a guidebook or travel journal. If you make plans to fly to Paris from Beijing or take a train to Chicago from Mexico City, you will need an itinerary. That means you will have a plan that displays how you will get from point to point in your travels and when you will be at each point. This word comes from the Middle English itinerarius and is defined as being "about a journey." Itineraries can be really useful because if you give your mother yours, she will always know where you are!
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Example Sentences
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The conversation then turned to the concierge Elise Wilson, a fashion stylist in Los Angeles, had hired to plan the group’s itinerary and make reservations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
It prohibits prominent display of individual fare components and requires the full price to be shown up front, “including in the first instance following an itinerary search,” according to a Department of Transportation document.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
And a few more hospital overnights than were on the holiday itinerary...
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Sleepy villages that would normally never feature in a typical tourist itinerary have suddenly found themselves inundated with eclipse hunters from around the world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
And there it says on our itinerary: Garden Hotel, Huanshi Dong Lu.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Alston Causey, a vice president at the travel agency Travelmation, also said he’s seeing his clients get savvy with their itineraries as a way to trim their budgets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
"I'd seen itineraries, I had a booking reference number."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Searching popular keywords like "citywalk" on the app brought up itineraries for the day, including where to eat and convenient routes from one attraction to another.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Trading accommodations on land for itineraries at sea isn’t entirely without compromise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Bruno Crespi, who was married to Amparo Moscote, and whose shop of toys and musical instruments continued to prosper, built a theater which Spanish companies included in their itineraries.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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