travel
verbnouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈtɹævəl//
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
verb
- 1
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.
Snakes do not travel well.
I still travel to work by bus.
He that feareth oblatration must not travel.
- 2
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
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- 4
To travel throughout (a place).
I’ve travelled the world.
- 5
To force to journey.
They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.
- 6
obsoleteTo labour; to travail.
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;
We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.
Man holds in constant service bound The blustering winds and seas; Nor suns disdain to travel hard Their master, man, to please;
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes 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 the doublets travail and travois. Compare typologically routine << Latin rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit). Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.
noun
- 1
The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.
space travel
a travel iron
- 2
A series of journeys.
I’m off on my travels around France again.
But overall, I think the railway delivered very well on my travels. I'd give it 9/10 - there are just a few little rough edges that need smoothing off.
- 3
An account of one's travels.
He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
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
obsoleteLabour; parturition; travail.
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.
Etymology
From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.
Forms
- plural
- travels
- past tense
- traveled, travelled
- past participle
- traveled, travelled
- present participle
- traveling, travelling
- third person singular
- travels
travel · To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
traveled · Frequented by travelers.traveling · A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball…travelled · Standard spelling of traveled.