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travers

travers adverb: across; athwart.

Adverb

travers (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) across; athwart
    • The earl […] caused […] high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

Proper noun capitalized: Travers

Travers

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
  3. An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
  4. A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.

travers meaning in Urdu

travers in Urdu

ٹریورز

Origin of travers

From French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.

From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.

Questions about travers

What does travers mean?
Travers means across; athwart.
What is travers in Urdu?
Travers in Urdu is ٹریورز. See Travers meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is travers?
Travers can be an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near travers in the dictionary

  1. travelways
  2. travelwear
  3. travelworn
  4. Travemünde
  5. Traver
  6. travers
  7. Traversa
  8. traversability
  9. traversable
  10. traversables
  11. traversal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: travers (page history and authors); Travers (page history and authors); travers (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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