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itinerary

UK/aɪˈtɪnə(ɹə)ɹi/US/aɪˈtɪnəˌɹɛɹi/

noun

What it means

  1. A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip.
  2. A route or proposed route of a journey.

    The length of the Wengernalp Railway from Lauterbrunnen over the Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald or vice versa, Riggenbach rack-and-pinion operated throughout, should be a "must" in the itinerary of every Oberland tourist; [...].

    1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752
  3. An account or record of a journey.

In a sentence

The length of the Wengernalp Railway from Lauterbrunnen over the Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald or vice versa, Riggenbach rack-and-pinion operated throughout, should be a "must" in the itinerary of every Oberland tourist; [...].

1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752

Where it comes from

  1. Latinitinerārium“an account of a journey, a road-book”
  2. Middle Englishitinerarie
  3. Englishitinerary

From Middle English itinerarie, from Latin itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”). By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ary.

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