"voluntourist" meaning in All languages combined

See voluntourist on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /vɒlənˈtʊəɹɪst/ [Received-Pronunciation], /vɑlənˈtʊəɹɪst/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav Forms: voluntourists [plural]
Etymology: Blend of volunteer + tourist. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|volunteer|tourist}} Blend of volunteer + tourist Head templates: {{en-noun}} voluntourist (plural voluntourists)
  1. A tourist who takes part in voluntourism.
    Sense id: en-voluntourist-en-noun-ASv32O4C Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "volunteer",
        "3": "tourist"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of volunteer + tourist",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of volunteer + tourist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "voluntourists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "voluntourist (plural voluntourists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "vo‧lun‧tour‧ist"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 21, Rafia Zakaria, “The white tourist’s burden”, in Al Jazeera America, archived from the original on 2016-01-14",
          "text": "As summer looms, many Americans — college students, retirees and others who stand at the cusp of life changes — will make similar choices in search of transformational experiences. An industry exists to make these easier to make: the voluntourism business. A voluntourist is someone like Jack, who wishes to combine exotic vacation travel with volunteer work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 7, Rosamund Urwin, Let’s praise the Jungle’s volunteers, in the i, № 1,831, page 18/5",
          "text": "I’m not pretending all in the camp are philanthropic angels. On Sunday we saw three “voluntourists”, taking selfies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tourist who takes part in voluntourism."
      ],
      "id": "en-voluntourist-en-noun-ASv32O4C",
      "links": [
        [
          "tourist",
          "tourist"
        ],
        [
          "voluntourism",
          "voluntourism"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vɒlənˈtʊəɹɪst/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vɑlənˈtʊəɹɪst/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "voluntourist"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "volunteer",
        "3": "tourist"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of volunteer + tourist",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of volunteer + tourist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "voluntourists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "voluntourist (plural voluntourists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "vo‧lun‧tour‧ist"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 21, Rafia Zakaria, “The white tourist’s burden”, in Al Jazeera America, archived from the original on 2016-01-14",
          "text": "As summer looms, many Americans — college students, retirees and others who stand at the cusp of life changes — will make similar choices in search of transformational experiences. An industry exists to make these easier to make: the voluntourism business. A voluntourist is someone like Jack, who wishes to combine exotic vacation travel with volunteer work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 7, Rosamund Urwin, Let’s praise the Jungle’s volunteers, in the i, № 1,831, page 18/5",
          "text": "I’m not pretending all in the camp are philanthropic angels. On Sunday we saw three “voluntourists”, taking selfies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tourist who takes part in voluntourism."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tourist",
          "tourist"
        ],
        [
          "voluntourism",
          "voluntourism"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vɒlənˈtʊəɹɪst/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-voluntourist.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vɑlənˈtʊəɹɪst/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "voluntourist"
}

Download raw JSONL data for voluntourist meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.