travel
/ˈtɹævəl/ verb, noun
Also a form of travail
Forms travels traveling travelling traveled travelled travellest travelest travelledst traveledst travelleth traveleth travail travell
- verb (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. “John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.”
- verb (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit. “Soundwaves can travel through water.”
- verb (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- verb (transitive) To travel throughout (a place). “I’ve travelled the world.”
- verb (transitive) To force to journey.
- verb (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- noun The act of traveling; passage from place to place. “I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.”
- noun (in the plural) A series of journeys. “I’m off on my travels around France again.”
- noun (in the plural) An account of one's travels. “He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.”
- noun The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- noun The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. “There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.”
- noun (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
- noun Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. “The keys have great travel.”
Synonyms
range fare journey reyse passage tour trip voyage stroke movement progression activity traffic along a route through a given point traveling travelling change of location locomotion go move locomote jaunt move around
Antonyms
Etymology
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.
From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] Hooker.
- verb To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
- verb To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." Milton.
- verb To force to journey. [R.]
Etymology [Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “travel”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details