Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɹævəl/
Verb
travel (travels, present participle travelling; past and past participle travelled)
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
- Soundwaves can travel through water.
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- I’ve travelled the world.
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- They shall not be travelled forth of their own franchises.
- (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- French: voyager
- German: reisen
- Italian: viaggiare
- Portuguese: viajar
- Russian: путеше́ствовать
- Spanish: viajar
- French: transmettre, propager
- German: sich übertragen, sich fortpflanzen
- Portuguese: viajar
- Russian: передвига́ться
- Russian: вести́
Noun
travel
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- space travel
- travel to Spain
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- I’m off on my travels around France again.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
- (act of travelling) journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage
- (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point) traffic
- (working motion of a piece of machinery) stroke, movement, progression
- German: Reisen
- Russian: путешествие
- Russian: ход
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