Usually means: Person who travels for pleasure.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word gadabout:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. gadabout: Merriam-Webster
  2. gadabout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gadabout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gadabout: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gadabout: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gadabout, gadabout: Wordnik
  7. gadabout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gadabout: Wiktionary
  9. gadabout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gadabout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gadabout: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gadabout, gadabout: Dictionary.com
  13. Gadabout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gadabout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. gadabout: Rhymezone
  16. Gadabout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. GADABOUT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. gadabout: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gadabout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. gadabout: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. gadabout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gadabout: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.

Similar:
gadfly, gadling, vagabond, runabout, vagabondizer, gadder, drifter, rolling stone, gypsy, straggler, more...

Opposite:
homebody, stay-at-home, introvert

Adjectives:
such, great, little, social, regular, old, restless, young, heedless, meddlesome, wanton



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Similar:
gadfly, gadling, vagabond, runabout, vagabondizer, gadder, drifter, rolling stone, gypsy, straggler, more...

Opposite:
homebody, stay-at-home, introvert

Adjectives:
such, great, little, social, regular, old, restless, young, heedless, meddlesome, wanton



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