travel
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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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.
Displaced native Middle English lithen (“to go, travel”) (from Old English līþan (“to go, travel”)) and Middle English ȝewalken, iwalken (“to walk about, travel”) (from Old English ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)). Largely displaced fare (from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”) and Old English fēran (“to go, travel”)) More at fare.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
travel (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.
- 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.
- (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.
- 1633, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Sir James Ware; reprinted as A View of the State of Ireland […], Dublin: […] the Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] By John Morrison, 1809:
- They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.
- (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[edit]
infinitive | travel | ||||||||||
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present participle | travelling | ||||||||||
past participle | travelled | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I travel | we travel | I am travelling | we are travelling | I have travelled | we have travelled | I have been travelling | we have been travelling | |||
you travel | you travel | you are travelling | you are travelling | you have travelled | you have travelled | you have been travelling | you have been travelling | ||||
he travels | they travel | he is travelling | they are travelling | he has travelled | they have travelled | he has been travelling | they have been travelling | ||||
past | I travelled | we travelled | I was travelling | we were travelling | I had travelled | we had travelled | I had been travelling | we had been travelling | |||
you travelled | you travelled | you were travelling | you were travelling | you had travelled | you had travelled | you had been travelling | you had been travelling | ||||
he travelled | they travelled | he was travelling | they were travelling | he had travelled | they had travelled | he had been travelling | they had been travelling | ||||
future | I will travel | we will travel | I will be travelling | we will be travelling | I will have travelled | we will have travelled | I will have been travelling | we will have been travelling | |||
you will travel | you will travel | you will be travelling | you will be travelling | you will have travelled | you will have travelled | you will have been travelling | you will have been travelling | ||||
he will travel | they will travel | he will be travelling | they will be travelling | he will have travelled | they will have travelled | he will have been travelling | they will have been travelling | ||||
conditional | I would travel | we would travel | I would be travelling | we would be travelling | I would have travelled | we would have travelled | I would have been travelling | we would have been travelling | |||
you would travel | you would travel | you would be travelling | you would be travelling | you would have travelled | you would have travelled | you would have been travelling | you would have been travelling | ||||
he would travel | they would travel | he would be travelling | they would be travelling | he would have travelled | they would have travelled | he would have been travelling | they would have been travelling | ||||
imperative | travel |
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- betravel
- fortravel
- retravel
- travellable, travelable
- travelled, traveled (adjective)
- traveller, traveler
- travel light
Translations[edit]
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Noun[edit]
travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)
- 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.
- 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.
Usage notes[edit]
- Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.
Synonyms[edit]
- (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
Derived terms[edit]
- active travel
- air travel
- antitravel
- A to B travel
- cybertravel
- ecotravel
- e-travel
- hypertravel
- nontravel
- overtravel
- pretravel
- time travel
- travel adapter
- travel agency
- travel agent
- travelator
- travelblog
- travel book, travelbook, travel-book
- travel bug
- travel document
- travel guide
- travelholic
- travelogue
- travel sickness
- travel system
- traveltime
- travelworn
Translations[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
References[edit]
- “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[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective[edit]
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)
References[edit]
- “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective[edit]
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)
References[edit]
- “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Westrobothnian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From traväl.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
travel n
- A jumble of tracks, footprints.
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *tréyes
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂ǵ-
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