travel

See also: .travel

English

Alternative forms

• travell

Etymology

From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen "to toil, work, travel", alteration of travaillen (“to toil, work”), borrowed from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See travail. Displaced native Middle English faren (“to travel, fare”) (from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”)), Middle English lithen (“to go, travel”) (from Old English līþan (“to go, travel”)), Middle English feren (“to go, travel”) (from Old English fēran (“to go, travel”)), Middle English ȝewalken, iwalken (“to walk about, travel”) (from Old English ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)), Middle English swinken (“to work, travel”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, work at”)). More at fare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹævəl/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ævəl

Verb

travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.

   Soundwaves can travel through water.

3. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).

   I’ve travelled the world.

5. (transitive) To force to journey.
   • Edmund Spenser

     They shall not be travelled forth of their own franchises.

6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)

Synonyms

• fare, journey, reyse

Derived terms

• traveller, traveler

Translations

to be on a journey

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: سَافَرَ‏‎ (sāfara)
• Armenian: ճանապարհորդել (hy) (čanaparhordel)
• Asturian: viaxar
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: bidaiatu (eu)
• Belarusian: падарожнічаць impf (padaróžničacʹ), вандраваць impf (vandravácʹ), ездзіць impf (jézdzicʹ)
• Breton: beajiñ (br)
• Bulgarian: пътувам (bg) impf (pǎtúvam), яздя impf (jázdja)
• Catalan: viatjar (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅行 (zh) (lǚxíng), 旅游 (zh) (lǚyóu)

• Czech: cestovat (cs) impf, jezdit (cs) impf
• Danish: rejse (da)
• Dutch: reizen (nl)
• Esperanto: vojaĝi (eo)
• Estonian: sõitma
• Faroese: ferðast
• Finnish: matkustaa (fi), matkata (fi)
• French: voyager (fr)
• Galician: viaxar
• Georgian: მოგზაურობა (mogzauroba)
• German: reisen (de)
• Greek: ταξιδεύω (el) (taxidévo)
• Greenlandic: angalavoq
• Haitian Creole: vwayaje
• Hebrew: לנסוע‏‎ (linsoa)
• Hindi: यात्रा करना (yātrā karnā)
• Hungarian: utazik (hu)
• Icelandic: ferðast (is)
• Interlingua: viagiar
• Irish: taistil
• Italian: viaggiare (it)
• Japanese: 旅行する (ja) (りょこうする, ryokō suru)
• Khmer: ធ្វើដំណើរ (tvəə dɑmnaə)
• Korean: 여행하다 (ko) (yeohaenghada)
• Lao: ເດີນທາງ (lo) (dəən-thaang)
• Latin: iter facio, vio, itineror
• Latvian: ceļot (lv)

• Lithuanian: keliauti
• Low German:

  German Low German: reisen

• Luxembourgish: reesen
• Macedonian: патува impf (pátuva)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: viagi
• Northern Sami: mannat, johtit, mátkkoštit
• Norwegian: reise (no) m

  Nynorsk: reisa, ferdast

• Novial: voyaja
• Old English: sīþian, wadan, faran, fēran
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سفر کردن‏‎ (fa) (safar kardan), مسافرت کردن‏‎ (mosâferat kardan)
• Polish: podróżować (pl) impf, jeździć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: viajar (pt)
• Quechua: ayway
• Romanian: călători (ro)
• Romansch: viagiar, far viadi
• Russian: путеше́ствовать (ru) impf (putešéstvovatʹ), е́здить (ru) impf (jézditʹ)
• Scots: traivel
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: путовати impf

  Roman: putovati (sh) impf

• Slovak: cestovať impf, jazdiť impf
• Slovene: potovati (sl) impf
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: pućować (hsb)

• Spanish: viajar (es)
• Swahili: safiri
• Swedish: resa (sv), färdas (sv)
• Thai: เดินทาง (th) (dəən-taang), ท่องเที่ยว (th) (tɔ̂ng-tîao)
• Tibetan: འགྲུལ་རྒྱག ('grul rgyag)
• Turkish: yolculuk (tr) etmek (tr), yolculuk (tr) yapmak (tr), seyahat (tr) etmek (tr), seyahat (tr) yapmak (tr)
• Tuvan: аян-чорук кылыр (ayan-čoruk kılır)
• Ukrainian: подоро́жувати impf (podoróžuvaty), мандрува́ти impf (mandruváty), ї́здити (uk) impf (jízdyty)
• Vietnamese: du lịch (vi)
• Volapük: tävön (vo)
• Welsh: teithio (cy), trafaelio (cy)
• Westrobothnian: fäläs

to pass from here to there; to transmit

• Arabic: اِنْتَقَلَ‏‎ (intaqala)
• Catalan: transitar (ca)
• Dutch: reizen (nl), verplaatsen (nl)
• Finnish: matkustaa (fi), kulkea (fi), liikkua (fi)
• French: transmettre (fr), propager (fr)
• German: sich übertragen, sich fortpflanzen
• Latin: ambulo
• Latvian: pārvietoties
• Norwegian: reise (no)

• Polish: przemieszczać się (pl)
• Portuguese: viajar (pt)
• Romanian: călători (ro)
• Russian: передвига́ться (ru) impf (peredvigátʹsja), перемеща́ться (ru) impf (peremeščátʹsja), проходи́ть (ru) impf (proxodítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: путовати, пренети

  Roman: putovati (sh), preneti (sh)

• Swedish: fara (sv), färdas (sv)

in basketball

• Catalan: fer passes (ca)

• Russian: вести́ (ru) (vestí)

to travel throughout

• Czech: procestovat
• Dutch: bereizen
• Finnish: vaeltaa (fi)
• Galician: viaxar
• German: bereisen (de)
• Latin: itineror, vio, relego
• Lithuanian: apkeliauti

• Polish: przemierzać (pl)
• Portuguese: viajar (pt)
• Russian: объе́здить (ru) (obʺjézditʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: proputòvati (sh)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} viajar por (es) , ^{(please verify)} recorrer (es)
• Swedish: resa runt, beresa

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} vojaĝi
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} viagiar

• Volapük: (- lü) ^{(please verify)} tävön (vo)

Noun

A caravan en route

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

1. The act of traveling.

   space travel

   travel to Spain

2. pl A series of journeys.
3. pl An account of one's travels.

   I’m off on my travels around France again.

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. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

Synonyms

• (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

• travel bug
• active travel

Translations

act of traveling

• Albanian: udhëtim (sq) m
• Arabic: مُسَافِرَة‏‎ f (musāfira), رِحْلَة‏‎ f (riḥla), سَفَر‏‎ m (safar), سَيَاحَة‏‎ f (sayāḥa)
• Armenian: ճանապարհորդություն (hy) (čanaparhordutʿyun)
• Avar: сапар (sapar)
• Azeri: səfər (az), səyahət (az)
• Belarusian: падаро́жжа n (padaróžža), пае́здка f (pajézdka) (specific)
• Bengali: যাত্রা (jatra)
• Bulgarian: пъту́ване (bg) n (pǎtúvane), пътеше́ствие (bg) n (pǎtešéstvie)
• Burmese: ခရီးသွားခြင်း (hka.ri:swa:hkrang:)
• Catalan: viatjar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅行 (zh) (lǚxíng)

• Czech: cestování n
• Danish: rejse (da) n
• Dutch: reis (nl)
• Esperanto: vojaĝado
• Estonian: reisimine
• Finnish: matkailu (fi), matkustelu (fi)
• French: voyage (fr) m
• Georgian: მოგზაურობა (mogzauroba)
• German: Reise (de) f
• Greek: ταξίδι (el) (taxídi)
• Hindi: यात्रा (hi) f (yātrā), सफ़र (hi) m (safar)
• Hungarian: út (hu), utazás (hu)
• Italian: viaggio (it) m
• Japanese: 旅行 (ja) (りょこう, ryokō)
• Kazakh: сапар (kk) (sapar), саяхат (kk) (sayaxat)
• Korean: 여행 (ko) (yeohaeng) (旅行 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: сапар (ky) (sapar), саякат (ky) (sayakat)
• Lao: ການເດີນທາງ (kān dœ̄n thāng)
• Latin: iter (la) n
• Latvian: ceļojums m
• Lithuanian: keliavimas m

• Macedonian: патување n (patuvanje)
• Malayalam: യാത്ര (ml) (yātra)
• Mongolian: аялал (mn) (ajalal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reise (no) m, f

• Oriya: ଯାତ୍ରା (or) (yātrā)
• Ossetian: балц (balc)
• Persian: سفر‏‎ (fa) (safar), سیاحت‏‎ (fa) (sayâhat)
• Polish: podróż (pl) f
• Portuguese: viagem (pt) f
• Romanian: voiaj (ro) n, călătorie (ro) f
• Russian: путеше́ствие (ru) n (putešéstvije), пое́здка (ru) f (pojézdka) (specific)
• Scottish Gaelic: siubhal m, taisteal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: путова́ње n

  Roman: putovánje (sh) n

• Sinhalese: චාරිකාව (cārikāva)
• Slovak: cestovanie n
• Slovene: potovanje (sl) n
• Spanish: viaje (es) m
• Swahili: safari (sw)
• Swedish: resa (sv) c
• Tajik: сафар (tg) (safar), саёҳат (sayohat)
• Telugu: ప్రయాణము (te) (prayāṇamu), యాత్ర (te) (yātra), పర్యటన (te) (paryaṭana)
• Thai: การเดินทาง (gaan-dəən-taang)
• Turkish: yolculuk (tr), seyahat (tr)
• Turkmen: sapar, syýahat
• Tuvan: аян-чорук (ayan-čoruk)
• Ukrainian: по́дорож f (pódorož), пої́здка f (pojízdka) (specific)
• Urdu: سفر‏‎ m (safar)
• Uzbek: safar (uz), sayohat (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự du lịch (vi), sự lữ hành (vi)
• Volapük: täv (vo)

plural: series of journeys

• Finnish: matka (fi)
• German: Reisen (de) f pl
• Polish: podróże pl
• Russian: путеше́ствия (ru) n pl (putešéstvija)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: путова́ње n

  Roman: putovánje (sh) n

• Swedish: resor (sv) c pl

plural: account of one's travels

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: путова́ње n

  Roman: putovánje (sh) n

• Swedish: reseskildringar (sv) c pl

motion of a piece of machinery

• Russian: ход (ru) m (xod)
• Scottish Gaelic: siubhal m

• Swedish: bana (sv) c, gång (sv) c, slag (sv) c, rörelse (sv) c

length of a mechanical stroke

• Finnish: matka (fi)
• Norwegian: slaglengde m

• Swedish: slaglängd c

Usage notes

• Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.

Further reading

• travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• travel in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• travel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• varlet

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)

1. busy

References

• “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.

Adjective

travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)

1. busy

References

• “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.