travel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævəl/
rhymes: -ævəl
Forms: form: travels
form: traveling
form: travelling
form: traveled
form: traveled
form: travelled
form: travelled
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: travel
form: travel
form: travelled
form: traveled
form: travel
form: travellest
form: travelest
form: travelled
form: traveled
form: travelledst
form: traveledst
form: travels
form: travelleth
form: traveleth
form: travelled
form: traveled
form: travel
form: travelled
form: traveled
form: travel
form: travelled
form: traveled
form: travel
form: -
form: travelling
form: traveling
form: travelled
form: traveled
form: travail
form: travell
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
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.
Senses: examples: text: John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.
text: He that feareth oblatration must not travel.
ref: 1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.
text: Then, when Moses had fulfilled the term, and was travelling with his housefolk, he saw in the distance a fire and said unto his housefolk: Bide ye (here). Lo! I see in the distance a fire; peradventure I shall bring you tidings thence, or a brand from the fire that ye may warm yourselves.
ref: 1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 28, verse 29:
text: Dennis Anderson, 45, and Brandy Goldsbury, 46, were traveling from the beach in Lincoln City on the Oregon coast back to their home in Tigard around 8:30 p.m. July 13 when they spotted a black BMW 3 Series trying to pass them, according to reporting in The Oregonian.
ref: 2022 July 21, Snejana Farberov, “Dad shot dead in road-rage attack after splashing windshield fluid on BMW”, in New York Post:
glosses: To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
examples: text: (ballistics)
text: Soundwaves can travel through water.
text: The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.
synonyms: range
glosses: To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
examples: text: I’ve travelled the world.
glosses: To travel throughout (a place).
examples: text: They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To force to journey.
examples: text: Necessity will make men fare hard, and work hard, and travel hard, go bare, and suffer much; yea it will even cut off a leg or arm to save their lives;
ref: 1707, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter, page 646:
text: We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.
ref: 1719, William Tilly, The Acceptable Sacrifice, page 335:
text: Man holds in constant service bound The blustering winds and seas; Nor suns disdain to travel hard Their master, man, to please;
ref: 1794, “Resignation”, in A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.Volume 10, page 144:
glosses: To labour; to travail.
Synonyms: fare
journey
reyse
Derived terms: word: betravel
word: fellow-travel
word: fortravel
word: retravel
word: road less traveled
word: travellable
word: travelable
word: travelled
word: traveled
word: traveller
word: traveler
word: travel light