2021-8-14 · Noun. tourist ( plural tourists ) Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s] quotations . 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist…