English Explanatory Dictionary

travel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
  2. To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
  3. To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
  4. To travel throughout (a place).
  5. To force to journey.
  6. To labour; to travail.
noun
  1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
  2. A series of journeys.
  3. An account of one's travels.
  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.
  6. Labour; parturition; travail.
  7. Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹævəl/ en-us-travel.ogg

Word forms

travel travels traveling travelling traveled travelled no-table-tags glossary travellest travelest travelledst traveledst travelleth traveleth travail travell

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes 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 the doublets travail and travois. Compare typologically routine << Latin rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit). Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.

Synonyms

fare journey reyse range activity traffic along a route through a given point passage tour trip voyage stroke movement progression

Derived words

betravel fellow-travel fortravel retravel road less traveled travellable travelable travelled traveled traveller traveler travel light active travel adventure travel air travel ancillary travel services antitravel A to B travel cybertravel ecotravel e-travel fast travel foot-travel hypertravel it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive nontravel overtravel pretravel ramp travel index range of travel revenge travel space travel time of travel time travel time-travel time travel debugging travel adapter travel agency travel agent travelator travel bag travelblog travel book travelbook travel-book travel bubble travel bug travel document travel guide travelholic travel insurance travel kit travelogue travel sickness travel-size travel-sized travel system traveltime travel time travel trailer
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