travel

== English == === Alternative forms === travail, travell (obsolete) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɹævəl/ Rhymes: -ævəl === Etymology 1 === 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. ==== 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) (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit. Synonym: range (ballistics) (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place). (transitive) To force to journey. (obsolete) To labour; to travail. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== fare, journey, reyse ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail. ==== Noun ==== travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels) The act of traveling; passage from place to place. (in the plural) A series of journeys. (in the plural) An account of one's travels. 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. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail. Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. ===== Usage notes ===== Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey. ===== Synonyms ===== (act of travelling): journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point): traffic (working motion of a piece of machinery): stroke, movement, progression ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== Further reading ===== travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “travel”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “travel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === retval, varlet == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl. === Adjective === travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste) busy === References === “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl. === Adjective === travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste) busy === References === “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.