Plural of travail

Forms of travail

Travails and travaux in a sentence

• And the British mandarin Left, like their contemporaries in the Foreign Office, had little time for the travails of the small countries between Germany and Russia, whom they had always regarded as something of a nuisance.2005, Tony Judt, “Culture Wars”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN
• In the most egregious examples, these stories harness a particular woman’s travails without acknowledging the systems and forces that contributed to her treatment and how these systems persist in our own time.2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
• This litany of travails is soul-crushing.From the entry soul-crushing
• A no-holds-barred, gritty – albeit often comic – portrait of the travails of a disparate group of misfits navigating Edinburgh’s dark, drug-riddled underbelly.2023 July 2, David Barnett, “‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now”, in The…. From the entry no-holds-barred
• The dandle-board of Nigeria’s history has thrust the oligarchs upward; rendered insensate to citizenry travails, they render millions destitute, humiliated and bereft of hope.2020 February 6, Olatunji Ololade, “This toxic underside”, in The Nation Newspaper. From the entry dandle board

Meaning of travail

1. noun Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
2. noun Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
3. noun An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).

Full definition of travail

More about travail

• Meaning of travail
• Synonyms of travail
• Travail in a sentence
• Travail in Arabic

Questions about the plural of travail

What is the plural of travail?

The plural of travail is travails or travaux.

Which is correct, travails or travaux?

Both are used. travails is the more common of the two in English writing.

Is travail countable?

Travail is a countable noun.