travel
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French word travailler meaning "to trouble, to suffer, or be worn out". See also travail.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /tɹævəl/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -ævəl
[edit] Verb
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to travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle Commonwealth travelling, US traveling, simple past and past participle Commonwealth travelled, US traveled)
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- I like to travel.
- (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.
[edit] Translations
to be on a journey
(intransitive) to pass from here to there; to transmit
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[edit] Noun
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travel (countable and uncountable; plural travels)
- The act of travel(l)ing
- space travel
- travel to Spain
- See: travel(l)er
- (plural) a series of journeys
- (plural) an account of one's travels
- I’m off on my travels around France again.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point
- The 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.
[edit] Synonyms
- (act of travel(l)ing): passage, tour, trip
- (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point): traffic
- (motion of a piece of machinery): stroke
- (length of a mechanical stroke): movement, progression
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
act of travel(l)ing
plural: account of one's travels
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[edit] References
- "travel" at The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
- “travel” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
