Definitions for travel
ˈtræv əltrav·el

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. travel, traveling, travellingnoun

   the act of going from one place to another

   "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"

2. change of location, travelnoun

   a movement through space that changes the location of something

3. locomotion, travelverb

   self-propelled movement

4. travel, go, move, locomoteverb

   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. travel, journeyverb

   undertake a journey or trip

6. travel, trip, jauntverb

   make a trip for pleasure

7. travel, journeyverb

   travel upon or across

   "travel the oceans"

8. travelverb

   undergo transportation as in a vehicle

   "We travelled North on Rte. 508"

9. travel, move aroundverb

   travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. travelnoun

   The act of travel(l)ing

2. travelnoun

   a series of journeys

3. travelnoun

   an account of one's travels

   I'm off on my travels around France again.

4. travelnoun

   The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point

5. travelnoun

   The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke

6. travelnoun

   Labour; parturition; travail.

7. travelverb

   To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.

   I like to travel.

8. travelverb

   To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.

   Soundwaves can travel through water.

9. travelverb

   To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.

10. travelverb

    To travel throughout (a place).

    I've travelled the world.

11. Etymology: travelen from Middle Scots travailen "to toil, work, travel", alteration of travaillen, from travailler "to trouble, suffer, be worn out". See travail. Displaced native faren (from faran), lithen (from liþan), feren (from feran), iwalken (from gewealcan), swinken (from swincan). More at fare.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Trave Travel or Travisenoun

   A wooden frame for shoeing unruly horses. Robert Ainsworth

2. Travelnoun

   Etymology: travail, Fr. from the noun.

   1. Journey; act of passing from place to place.

   Love had cut him short,
   Confin’d within the purlieus of his court.
   Three miles he went, nor farther could retreat,
   His travels ended at his country-seat. Dryden.

   Mingled send into the dance
   Moments fraught with all the treasures,
   Which thy eastern travel views. Matthew Prior.

   2. Journey of curiosity or instruction.

   Let him spend his time no more at home,
   Which would be great impeachment to his age,
   In having known no travel in his youth. William Shakespeare.

   Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder a part of experience. Francis Bacon, Essays, №. 18.

   A man not enlightened by travel or reflexion, grows as fond of arbitrary power, to which he hath been used, as of barren countries, in which he has been born and bred. Addis.

   3. Labour; toil. This should be travail: as in Daniel.

   He wars with a retiring enemy,
   With much more travail than with victory. Daniel.

   What think’st thou of our empire now, though earn’d
   With travel difficult. John Milton.

   4. Labour in childbirth. This sense belongs rather to travail.

   Thy mother well deserves that short delight,
   The nauseous qualms of ten long months and travel to requite. John Dryden, Virg.

   4.
   5. Travels. Account of occurrences and observations of a journey into foreign parts.

   A book of his travels hath been honoured with the translation of many languages. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

   Histories engage the soul by sensible occurrences; as also voyages, travels, and accounts of countries. Isaac Watts.

3. To Travelverb

   1. To pass; to journey over.

   Thither to arrive I travel thus profound. John Milton.

   2. To force to journey.

   There are other privileges granted unto most of the corporations, that they shall not be charged with garrisons, and they shall not be travelled forth of their own franchises. Edmund Spenser.

4. To Travelverb

   This word is generally supposed originally the same with travail, and to differ only as particular from general: in some writers the word is written alike in all its senses; but it is more convenient to write travail for labour, and travel for journey.

   1. To make journeys: it is used for sea as well as land, though sometimes we distinguish it from voyage, a word appropriated to the sea.

   In the forest shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. Isa. xxi. 13.

   Raphael deign’d to travel with Tobias. John Milton.

   Fain wou’d I travel to some foreign shore,
   So might I to myself myself restore. Dryden.

   If others believed he was an Egyptian from his knowledge of their rites, it proves at least that he travelled there. Alexander Pope.

   2. To pass; to go; to move.

   By th’ clock ’tis day;
   And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. William Shakespeare.

   Time travels in divers paces, with divers persons; I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal. William Shakespeare.

   Thus flying East and West, and North and South,
   News travell’d with increase from mouth to mouth. Alexander Pope.

   3. To make journeys of curiosity.

   Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as travelling, that is, making a visit to other towns, cities, or countries, beside those in which we were born and educated. Isaac Watts.

   4. To labour; to toil. This should be rather travail.

   If we labour to maintain truth and reason, let not any think that we travel about a matter not needful. Richard Hooker.

   I’ve watch’d and travell’d hard;
   Some time I shall sleep out; the rest I’ll whistle. William Shakespeare.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Travelverb

   to labor; to travail

2. Travelverb

   to go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets

3. Travelverb

   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

4. Travelverb

   to pass; to go; to move

5. Travelverb

   to journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent

6. Travelverb

   to force to journey

7. Travelnoun

   the act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey

8. Travelnoun

   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

9. Travelnoun

   the length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve

10. Travelnoun

    labor; parturition; travail

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Travel

   Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Travel

   trav′el, v.i. to walk: to journey: to pass: to move.—v.t. to pass: to journey over:—pr.p. trav′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. trav′elled.—n. act of passing from place to place: journey: labour: (pl.) an account of a journey.—p.adj. Trav′elled, having made journeys: knowing.—ns. Trav′eller, one who travels: a wayfarer: one who travels for a mercantile house: a ring that slides along a rope or spar; Trav′eller's-joy, the virgin's-bower, Clematis Vitalba; Trav′eller's-tale, a story that cannot be accepted, a tall story, an astounding lie, a whopper; Trav′eller's-tree, a remarkable Madagascar tree, its stem resembling a plantain, but sending out leaves only on two opposite sides, like a great expanded fan.—adj. Trav′elling.—ns. Trav′elling-bag, a bag for carrying necessaries on a journey, toilet articles, &c.; Trav′elling-carr′iage, a heavy carriage, fitted up for travelling in before railways; Trav′elling-cou′vert, a set of table utensils, arranged to pack up easily for travelling; Trav′elling-crane, a crane fixed on a carriage which may be moved on rails; Trav′elling-dress, a plain and easy dress to wear when travelling.—p.adjs. Trav′el-soiled, -stained, showing the marks of travel; Trav′el-taint′ed (Shak.), fatigued with travel, harassed. [A form of travail.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. travel

   To convey or transmit from a location to a specific location.

   The data travels on the network system at superluminal speed.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 28, 2020  

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   travel

   To use a form of transport.

   The travel company were very efficient and friendly.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 2, 2020  

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'travel' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2815

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'travel' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2664

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'travel' in Nouns Frequency: #1116

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'travel' in Verbs Frequency: #253

Anagrams for travel »

1. varlet

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of travel in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of travel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of travel in a Sentence

1. Keith Snow:

   But me and my wife are getting ready to travel.

2. Carly Fiorina:

   While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them.

3. Ken Paxton:

   What evidence that does exist in the record suggests that, if anything, the Act is stimulating rather than obstructing interstate travel.

4. Adam Kushner:

   We found that even in the most removed villages, people understood the need for surgery and surgical care, but that mistrust with the health care system or the high cost of care or travel would preclude their seeking assistance.

5. James Hagerty:

   Sometimes we're alone and unafraid out here, but we understand the path of travel and we understand we're a community that ultimately wants to help people.

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