travel
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɹævəl/
From Middle English travelen from gmw-msc travailen, alteration of Middle English travaillen, from Old French travailler.
Largely displaced fare, from Old English faran.
Verbtravel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)
- (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.
- 1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.:
- He that feareth oblatration must not travel.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC ↗:
- They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.
- (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
Conjugation of travel
infinitive | (to) travel | ||
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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.
- 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
- German: bereisen
- Portuguese: viajar
- Russian: объе́здить
- Spanish: viajar , recorrer
From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel.
Nountravel
- 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.
- 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.).
- 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.
- Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
- The keys have great travel.
- (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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