travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
travel verb: to be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
Verb
travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle (US) traveling or (UK) travelling, simple past and past participle (US) traveled or (UK) travelled)
- 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.
- Snakes do not travel well.
- To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
- Soundwaves can travel through water.
- The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.
- Synonyms:
- range
- To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- To travel throughout (a place).
- I’ve travelled the world.
- To force to journey.
- They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.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 […]...
- To labour; to travail.
- 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;1707, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter, page 646
- We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.1719, William Tilly, The Acceptable Sacrifice, page 335
Noun
travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.
- space travel
- A series of journeys.
- I’m off on my travels around France again.
- But overall, I think the railway delivered very well on my travels. I'd give it 9/10 - there are just a few little rough edges that need smoothing off.2023 November 29, 'Mystery Shopper', “Does the railway deliver for passengers?”, in RAIL, number 997, page 53
- An account of one's travels.
- He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
- CALUAT, s. This in some old travels is used for Ar. khilwat, 'privacy, a private interview' (C. P. Brown, MS.).1903, Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell, Hobson-Jobson
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- 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.
- My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.
- Synonyms:
- stroke, movement, progression
- Labour; parturition; travail.
- Hard Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travel, and continue a longer time.1667, John Tanner, The hidden treasures of the art of physick, page 208
- Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
- The keys have great travel.
travel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
travel in Hindi
- be on a journey
- यात्रा करना yātrā karnā
- act of traveling
- यात्रा yātrā, सफ़र safar, सियाहत siyāhat
travel in Tamil
- பயணம், பிரயாணம், செலவு, செல்கை, பயணம் செய், பயணி
travel in Marathi
- प्रवास, प्रवास करा, प्रवास करणे
travel in Urdu
- act of traveling
- سَفَر safar, سِیاحَت siyāhat
More languagesFewer languages
- travel in Bengali
- যাত্রা jatra, ভ্রমণ bhromon
- travel in Telugu
- ప్రయాణము prayāṇamu, యాత్ర yātra, పర్యటన paryaṭana
- travel in Malayalam
- സഞ്ചരിക്കുക sañcarikkuka, യാത്ര ചെയ്യുക yātra ceyyuka, യാത്ര yātra
- travel in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಯಾಣ, ಪಯಣ, ಪ್ರವಾಸ, ಪರ್ಯಟನೆ
- travel in Punjabi
- ਯਾਤਰਾ yātrā, ਭ੍ਰਮਨ bhraman, ਸਿਆਹਤ siāhat
- travel in Gujarati
- સફર saphar, યાત્રા yātrā
- travel in Odia
- ଯାତ୍ରା jātrā
- travel in Sinhala
- චාරිකාව cārikāwa
- travel in Assamese
- ফুৰ phur
- travel in Nepali
- घुम्नु ghumnu, भ्रमण गर्नु bhramaṇ garnu, यात्रा गर्नु yātrā garnu
- travel in Pashto
- سفر safár, سياحت sayāhat
- travel in Arabic
- سَافَرَ sāfara, سَارَ sāra, اِنْتَقَلَ intaqala, مُسَافِرَة musāfira
- travel in Malay
- melancong
- travel in Persian
- سفر کردن safar kardan, مسافرت کردن mosâferat kardan
- travel in Thai
- เดินทาง dəən-taang, ท่องเที่ยว tɔ̂ng-tîao, การเดินทาง gaan-dəən-taang
- travel in Vietnamese
- du lịch, sự du lịch, sự lữ hành
- travel in Myanmar
- ကူးသန်း ku:san:, ခရီးသွားခြင်း hka.ri:swa:hkrang:
Examples of travel in a sentence
- I still travel to work by bus.
- He that feareth oblatration must not travel.1661, John Stephens, “Prol.”, in An Historical Discourse...:
- 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).1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, New York: Alfred A Knop, surah 28, verse 29, page 397:
- And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022:
- 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.2022 July 21, Snejana Farberov, “Dad shot dead in road-rage attack after splashing windshield fluid on BMW”, in New York Post, archived...
Synonyms of travel
Forms of travel
| third-person singular present | travels |
|---|---|
| present participle US | traveling |
| present participle UK | travelling |
| past participle US | traveled |
| past US | traveled |
| past participle UK | travelled |
| past UK | travelled |
| first-person singular past | travelled |
| second-person singular past | travelled |
| third-person singular past | travelled |
| plural past | travelled |
| past subjunctive | travelled |
| present participle | travelling |
| past participle | travelled |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | travellest |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | travelest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | travelledst |
Origin of travel
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 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.
Words formed from travel
- betravel
- cotravel
- fellow-travel
- fortravel
- it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
- outtravel
- retravel
- road less traveled
- road less travelled
- travelable
- travellable
- traveled
- travelled
- traveler
- traveller
- traveling purchaser problem
- travel light
- untravelable
- untravellable
- untraveled
- untravelled
- fast travel
- time-travel
- time travel
- active travel
- adventure travel
- air travel
- ancillary travel services
- antitravel
- A to B travel
- cybertravel
- ecotravel
- e-travel
- foot-travel
- hypertravel
- nontravel
- overtravel
- pretravel
- ramp travel index
- range of travel
- revenge travel
- space travel
- time of travel
- timetravel
- time travel debugging
- travel adapter
- travel agency
- travel agent
- travelator
- travel bag
- travelblog
- travel book
- travelbook
- travel-book
- travel bubble
- travel bug
- travelcard
- travel document
- traveldom
- Travelgate
Phrases with travel
Words that rhyme with travel
Questions about travel
- What does travel mean?
- Travel means to be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- What is travel in Hindi?
- Travel in Hindi is यात्रा करना (yātrā karnā), यात्रा (yātrā), सफ़र (safar). See Travel meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use travel in a sentence?
- I still travel to work by bus.
- What part of speech is travel?
- Travel can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce travel?
- Travel is pronounced /ˈtɹævəl/.
- What is the past tense of travel?
- The past tense of travel is traveled.
Words near travel in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: travel (page history and authors); travel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); travel (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); travel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਭ੍ਰਮਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); યાત્રા (Gujarati) (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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