travel

English Online Dictionary. What means travel‎? What does travel mean?

English

Alternative forms

• travail (obsolete)
• travell (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹævəl/
• Rhymes: -ævəl

Etymology 1

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 doublet travail.

Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.

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.
   • 1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.:

     He that feareth oblatration must not travel.
2. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.

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

5. (transitive) To force to journey.
6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• fare, journey, reyse

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.

Noun

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.

2. (in the plural) A series of journeys.
3. (in the plural) 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. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
7. Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.

Usage notes

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

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

Translations

Further reading

• travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “travel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “travel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• retval, varlet

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.

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.