travel

[trav-uh l] /ˈtræv əl/
verb (used without object), traveled, traveling or (especially British) travelled, travelling.
1.
to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey:
to travel for pleasure.
2.
to move or go from one place or point to another.
3.
to proceed or advance in any way.
4.
to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.
5.
to associate or consort:
He travels in a wealthy crowd.
6.
Informal. to move with speed.
7.
to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
8.
Basketball. walk (def 9).
9.
to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.
verb (used with object), traveled, traveling or (especially British) travelled, travelling.
10.
to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
11.
to journey or traverse (a specified distance):
We traveled a hundred miles.
12.
to cause to journey; ship:
to travel logs downriver.
noun
13.
the act of traveling; journeying, especially to distant places:
to travel to other planets.
14.
travels.
  1. journeys; wanderings:
    to set out on one's travels.
  2. journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work:
    a book of travels.
  3. such an account or work.
15.
the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic:
an increase in travel on state roads.
16.
Machinery.
  1. the complete movement of a moving part, especially a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke.
  2. length of stroke.
17.
movement or passage in general:
to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.
adjective
18.
used or designed for use while traveling:
a travel alarm clock.
Origin
1325-75; Middle English (north and Scots), orig. the same word as travail (by shift “to toil, labor” > “to make a laborious journey”)
Related forms
travelable, adjective
nontraveling, adjective
nontravelling, adjective
outtravel, verb (used with object), outtraveled, outtraveling or (especially British) outtravelled, outtravelling.
pretravel, noun, verb, pretraveled, pretraveling or (especially British) pretravelled, pretravelling.
untraveling, adjective
untravelling, adjective
Examples from the web for travel
  • The only way to travel greener might be to bicycle or walk-but the trip is long enough as it is.
  • Cruise lines reduce their rates and those of their travel agency partners to ensure ships don't tour the seas empty.
  • We had a great time, and people in the travel business know that can add a lot of fun to a trip.
  • We asked readers to submit essays about why they travel.
  • One of the perks of academia is the opportunity for occasional travel to conferences, archives, or field-work.
  • We will never travel the speed of light or even half the speed of light or one thousandths the speed of light.
  • Cooler temperatures, striking colors, smaller crowds-Autumn is the perfect time to travel.
  • From their size, bacteria don't look the the sort of organisms to travel far.
  • Without questions, air travel delays are out of control.
  • We asked readers to submit their best travel photos and share the back story.
British Dictionary definitions for travel

travel

/ˈtrævəl/
verb (mainly intransitive) -els, -elling, -elled (US) -els, -eling, -eled
1.
to go, move, or journey from one place to another: he travels to improve his mind, she travelled across France
2.
(transitive) to go, move, or journey through or across (an area, region, etc): he travelled the country
3.
to go, move, or cover a specified or unspecified distance
4.
to go from place to place as a salesman: to travel in textiles
5.
(esp of perishable goods) to withstand a journey
6.
(of light, sound, etc) to be transmitted or move: the sound travelled for miles
7.
to progress or advance
8.
(basketball) to take an excessive number of steps while holding the ball
9.
(of part of a mechanism) to move in a fixed predetermined path
10.
(informal) to move rapidly: that car certainly travels
11.
(often foll by with) (informal) to be in the company (of); associate
noun
12.
  1. the act of travelling
  2. (as modifier): a travel brochure, related adjective itinerant
13.
(usually pl) a tour or journey
14.
the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
15.
movement or passage
Word Origin
C14 travaillen to make a journey, from Old French travaillier to travail
Word Origin and History for travel
v.

late 14c., "to journey," from travailen (1300) "to make a journey," originally "to toil, labor" (see travail). The semantic development may have been via the notion of "go on a difficult journey," but it may also reflect the difficulty of going anywhere in the Middle Ages. Replaced Old English faran. Travels "accounts of journeys" is recorded from 1590s. Traveled "experienced in travel" is from early 15c. Traveling salesman is attested from 1885.