Definitions of Travel [ˈtræv əl]

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Definition of 'Travel'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) travel
to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip.

2.  travel
to move or pass from one place or point to another.

3.  travel
to proceed or advance.

4.  travel
to pass or be transmitted, as light or information:
The news traveled quickly.

5.  travel
to go from place to place as a representative of a business.

6.  travel
to associate or consort:
to travel with a wealthy crowd.

7.  travel
to admit of being transported or transmitted, esp. without suffering harm:
a wine that does not travel well.

8.  travel
Informal. to move with speed.

9.  travel
Basketball.

10.  travel
to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

11. (v.t.) travel
to travel, journey, or pass through or over.

12.  travel
to journey or traverse (a specified distance).

13.  travel
to cause to travel or journey:
to travel logs downriver.

14. (n.) travel
the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places.

15.  travel
travels,

16.  travel
journeys.

17.  travel
a written work describing such journeys.

18.  travel
the coming and going of people or conveyances along a route; traffic.

19.  travel
the complete movement of a moving mechanical part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke.

20.  travel
length of stroke.

21.  travel
movement or passage in general.

22. (adj.) travel
designed for use while traveling:
a travel clock.

Etymology: (1325–75; ME (N and Scots), orig. the same word as travail (by shift “to toil, labor”&whence;“to make a laborious journey”))

Definition of 'Travel'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) travel, traveling, travelling
the act of going from one place to another
"he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"

2. (noun) change of location, travel
a movement through space that changes the location of something

3. (verb) locomotion, travel
self-propelled movement

4. (verb) travel, go, move, locomote
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
"How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"

5. (verb) travel, journey
undertake a journey or trip

6. (verb) travel, trip, jaunt
make a trip for pleasure

7. (verb) travel, journey
travel upon or across
"travel the oceans"

8. (verb) travel
undergo transportation as in a vehicle
"We travelled North on Rte. 508"

9. (verb) travel, move around
travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

Definition of 'Travel'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) travel
to move from one place to another
I like to travel.; We traveled 120 miles on the first day.; Where are you traveling to?

2. travel
(of light, sound, news, etc.) to spread
News travels fast.

3. (noun) travel
the activity of traveling from one place to another
My hobbies include reading and travel.

4. travel
sb's travels
where sb has traveled to
the adventures he has had on his travels

Definition of 'Travel'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Travel
the act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey

2. (noun) Travel
an account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy

3. (noun) Travel
the length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve

4. (noun) Travel
labor; parturition; travail

5. (verb) Travel
to labor; to travail

6. (verb) Travel
to go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets

7. (verb) Travel
to pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California

8. (verb) Travel
to pass; to go; to move

9. (verb) Travel
to journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent

10. (verb) Travel
to force to journey

Definition of 'Travel'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. Travel
Aspects of health and disease related to travel. It includes the physiologic and psychologic beneficial or adverse effects of travel in general or with regard to specific diseases.

Translation of 'Travel'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to go from place to place; to journey I travelled to Scotland by train; He has to travel a long way to school.
Afrikaans: reis, ry	Arabic: يُسافِر	Bulgarian: пътувам
Brazilian: viajar	Czech: cestovat; urazit	German: fahren
Danish: rejse	Greek: ταξιδεύω	Spanish: viajar
Estonian: sõitma	Farsi: سفر کردن	Finnish: matkustaa
French: voyager	Hebrew: לְטַייֵל	Hindi: यात्रा करना
Croatian: putovati	Hungarian: utazik	Indonesian: melancong
Icelandic: ferðast	Italian: viaggiare	Japanese: 移動する
Korean: 여행하다	Lithuanian: vykti, keliauti	Latvian: ceļot; mērot ceļu; braukt
Malay: berjalan	Dutch: reizen	Norwegian: reise, krysse
Polish: jechać, jeździć	Persian: سفر کردن	Pashto: سفر کول
Portuguese: viajar	Romanian: a călători	Russian: ездить
Slovenian: potovati	Serbian: putovati	Swedish: resa,åka, fara
Thai: เดินทาง	Turkish: yolculuk yapmak, seyahat	Taiwanese: 遊歷
Ukrainian: мандрувати, подорожувати	Urdu: سفر کرنا	Vietnamese: đi lại
Chinese: 行走，游历
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