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travel

tra·vel

UK/ˈtɹævəl/ US/ˈtrævʌl/ common
verb (6) noun (3)

verb

1.

change location; move, travel, or proceed

  • “How fast does your new car go?”
  • “We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus”
  • “The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect”
  • “The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell”
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2.

undertake a journey or trip

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3.

make a trip for pleasure

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4.

travel upon or across

  • “travel the oceans”
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5.

undergo transportation as in a vehicle

  • “We travelled North on Rte. 508”
6.

travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

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noun

1.

the act of going from one place to another

  • “he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel”
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2.

a movement through space that changes the location of something

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • A to B travel
  • active travel
  • adventure travel
  • air travel
  • ancillary travel services
  • fast travel
  • it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive
  • ramp travel index
  • road less traveled
  • road less travelled
  • time travel
  • travel light

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