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Definitions for Travel

[1] to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
[2] to move or go from one place or point to another.
[3] to proceed or advance in any way.
[4] to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.
[5] to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.
[6] Informal . to move with speed.
[7] to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
[8] Basketball . walk(def 9) .
[9] to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.
[10] to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
[11] to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.
[12] to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.
[13] the act of traveling; journeying, especially to distant places: to travel to other planets.
[14] travels, journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels. journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels. such an account or work.
[15] the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.
[16] Machinery . the complete movement of a moving part, especially a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke. length of stroke.
[17] movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.
[18] used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.
[19] to go, move, or journey from one place to another he travels to improve his mind ; she travelled across France
[20] (tr) to go, move, or journey through or across (an area, region, etc) he travelled the country
[21] to go, move, or cover a specified or unspecified distance
[22] to go from place to place as a salesman to travel in textiles
[23] (esp of perishable goods) to withstand a journey
[24] (of light, sound, etc) to be transmitted or move the sound travelled for miles
[25] to progress or advance
[26] basketball to take an excessive number of steps while holding the ball
[27] (of part of a mechanism) to move in a fixed predetermined path
[28] informal to move rapidly that car certainly travels
[29] (often foll by with) informal to be in the company (of); associate
[30] the act of travelling (as modifier ) a travel brochure Related adjective: itinerant
[31] (usually plural) a tour or journey
[32] the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
[33] movement or passage

Words related to Travel

trek, driving, ride, flying, excursion, tour, transit, movement, navigation, trip, sailing, sightseeing, fly, sail, proceed, migrate, move, visit, drive, cross

Words nearby Travel

traumatopnea, trav., travail, travancore, trave, travel, travel agency, travel agent, travel light, travel shot, travel time

Origin of Travel

1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots), orig. the same word as travail (by shift “to toil, labor” > “to make a laborious journey”)

Other words from Travel

trav·el·a·ble , adjective
non·trav·el·ing , adjective
non·trav·el·ling , adjective
out·trav·el , verb (used with object), out·trav·eled, out·trav·el·ing or (especially British ) out·trav·elled, out·trav·el·ling.
pre·trav·el , noun, verb, pre·trav·eled, pre·trav·el·ing or (especially British ) pre·trav·elled, pre·trav·el·ling.
un·trav·el·ing , adjective
un·trav·el·ling , adjective

Word origin for Travel

C14 travaillen to make a journey, from Old French travaillier to travail

Synonyms for Travel

driving, excursion, flying, movement, navigation, ride, sailing, sightseeing, tour, transit, trek, trip, biking, commutation, cruising, drive, expedition, hop, junket, passage, peregrination, ramble, riding, seafaring, swing, touring, trekking, voyage, voyaging, walk, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring, weekend, globe-trotting, overnight