travel

See also: .travel

English

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Etymology
PIE word
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From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See travail.

Largely displaced fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹævəl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ævəl

Verb

travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)

  1. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
    John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.
    • 1930, Pickthall, Marmaduke (translator), The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 28, verse 29:
      Then, when Moses had fulfilled the term, and was travelling with his housefolk, he saw in the distance a fire and said unto his housefolk: Bide ye (here). Lo! I see in the distance a fire; peradventure I shall bring you tidings thence, or a brand from the fire that ye may warm yourselves.
  2. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit
    Soundwaves can travel through water.
    The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.
  3. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  4. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
    I’ve travelled the world.
  5. (transitive) To force to journey.
  6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
    • 1707, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter, page 646:
      Necessity will make men fare hard, and work hard, and travel hard, go bare, and suffer much; yea it will even cut off a leg or arm to save their lives;
    • 1719, William Tilly, The Acceptable Sacrifice, page 335:
      We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.
    • 1794, “Resignation”, in A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.Volume 10, page 144:
      Man holds in constant service bound The blustering winds and seas; Nor suns disdain to travel hard Their master, man, to please;

Conjugation
Conjugation of travel
infinitive (to) travel
present tense past tense
1st-person singular travel travelled, traveled*
2nd-person singular travel, travellest†, travelest† travelled, traveled*, travelledst†, traveledst†
3rd-person singular travels, travelleth†, traveleth† travelled, traveled*
plural travel
subjunctive travel travelled, traveled*
imperative travel —
participles travelling, traveling* travelled, traveled*

†Archaic or obsolete. * US.

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Noun
A caravan en route

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

  1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
    space travel
    travel to Spain
  2. (in the plural) A series of journeys.
    I’m off on my travels around France again.
  3. (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
    He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
    • 1903, Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell, Hobson-Jobson
      CALUAT, s. This in some old travels is used for Ar. khilwat, 'privacy, a private interview' (C. P. Brown, MS.).
  4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  5. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
    There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
    My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
  6. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
    • 1667, John Tanner, The hidden treasures of the art of physick, page 208:
      Hard Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travel, and continue a longer time.
  7. Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
    The keys have great travel.

Usage notes
  • Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.

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Further reading

References
  • travel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • travel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)

  1. busy

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)

  1. busy

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From traväl.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtræːʋəɽ/

Noun

travel n

  1. A jumble of tracks, footprints.
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