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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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
“It’s all about doing the research and not just throwing yourself into an itinerary that you had in your mind,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Make it a day trip or use it to create a last-minute, multicity itinerary without too many airports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"The information I received was that there would be none," he said, adding that consular staff said they would explain his criminal record and itinerary to the UK Border Force.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Now they were waiting for further instructions from God because they hadn’t received a complete itinerary.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"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
Winkleman added that cruise lines typically have a long list of clauses in their passenger contracts that address any number of scenarios, from changing itineraries with little notice to, yes, imposing a fuel surcharge.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
And he hired a PR person named Kathy who answered and made and returned a lot of phone calls and then typed up itineraries for interviews and appearances.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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