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travell

travell is the obsolete form of travel.

travell is the obsolete form of travail.

travell is the archaic form of travel.

Meaning of travel

Noun

travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)

  1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
    • I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.
  2. (in plural) A series of journeys.
    • I’m off on my travels around France again.
  3. (in plural) An account of one's travels.
    • He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.
  4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
  5. 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.
  6. (obsolete) 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

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Meaning of travail

Noun

travail (plural travails or travaux)

  1. (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
    • Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […]1582 – 1610, Douay Rheims Bible, Book of Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Sirach) XL.1–11
    Synonyms:
    toil, tribulation, ordeal
    Antonyms:
    ease, leisure
  2. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
    • The lady shrieks and, well-a-near,
      Does fall in travail with her fear.c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...
  3. (countable, obsolete) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
  4. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.

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Forms of travell

Noun
pluraltravells
Verb
third-person singular presenttravells
present participletravelling
past participletravelled
pasttravelled

Questions about travell

What is travell the obsolete form of?
Travell is the obsolete form of travel.

Words near travell in the dictionary

  1. traveling waves
  2. traveling-salesman problem
  3. traveling-wave tube
  4. traveling-wave tubes
  5. travelings
  6. travell
  7. travellability
  8. travellable
  9. travellator
  10. travellators
  11. travelled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: travell (page history and authors); travel (page history and authors); travail (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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