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time-travel

time-travel is the alternative form of time travel.

Verb

time-travel (third-person singular simple present time-travels, present participle (US) time-traveling or (UK) time-travelling, simple past and past participle (US) time-traveled or (UK) time-travelled)

  1. (intransitive) To travel through time.
  2. (slang) To sleep.

Meaning of time travel

Noun

time travel (uncountable)

  1. Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
  2. The ability to access previous states of a database.

Forms of time-travel

Noun
alternative formtime travel
alternative formtimetravel
Verb
third-person singular presenttime-travels
present participle UStime-traveling
present participle UKtime-travelling
past participle UStime-traveled
past UStime-traveled
past participle UKtime-travelled
past UKtime-travelled

Origin of time-travel

time + travel

Words formed from time-travel

Questions about time-travel

What does time-travel mean?
Time-travel means to travel through time.
What is time-travel the alternative form of?
Time-travel is the alternative form of time travel.
What part of speech is time-travel?
Time-travel is a verb.
What is the past tense of time-travel?
The past tense of time-travel is time-traveled.

Words near time-travel in the dictionary

  1. time-track
  2. time-tracking
  3. time-tracking software
  4. time-trackings
  5. time-tracks
  6. time-travel
  7. time-traveler
  8. time-travelers
  9. time-traveling
  10. time-traveller
  11. time-travellers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: time-travel (page history and authors); time travel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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