# World of the word: travel

## Notes

Travel is to escape from ours everyday life, to discover people, cultures, different landscapes, is a draft of oxygen. When we return, there are the souvenirs, but we already have in mind the next destination. The one who travelled a lot, who changed twenty times shape of its thought and its life, is complete.

## Pronunciations

# travel

## Definitions

### from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

- intransitive v. To go from one place to another, as on a trip; journey.
- intransitive v. To go from place to place as a salesperson or agent.
- intransitive v. To be transmitted, as light or sound; move or pass.
- intransitive v. To advance or proceed.
- intransitive v. To go about in the company of a particular group; associate: travels in wealthy circles.
- intransitive v. To move along a course, as in a groove.
- intransitive v. To admit of being transported without loss of quality; Some wines travel poorly.
- intransitive v. Informal To move swiftly.
- intransitive v. Basketball To walk or run illegally while holding the ball.
- transitive v. To pass or journey over or through; traverse: travel the roads of Europe.
- n. The act or process of traveling; movement or passage from one place to another.
- n. A series of journeys.
- n. An account of one's journeys.
- n. Activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- n. The activity or business of arranging trips or providing services for travelers.
- n. The motion of a piece of machinery, especially of a reciprocating part; stroke.
- n. The length of a mechanical stroke.

### from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

- v. To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- v. To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
- v. To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- v. To travel throughout (a place).
- n. The act of traveling.
- n. pl. A series of journeys.
- n. pl. An account of one's travels.
- n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- n. Labour; parturition; travail.

### from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

- n. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
- n. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey;  -- often used as the title of a book.
- n. The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece.
- n. Labor; parturition; travail.
- intransitive v. To labor; to travail.
- intransitive v. To go or march on foot; to walk.
- intransitive v. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey.
- intransitive v. To pass; to go; to move.
- transitive v. To journey over; to traverse.
- transitive v. To force to journey.

### from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

- To labor; toil.
- To pass or make a journey from place to place, whether on foot, on horseback, or in any conveyance, as a carriage or a ship; go to or visit distant or foreign places; journey: as, to travel for health or for pleasure.
- Specifically, to make a journey or go about from place to place for the purpose of taking orders for goods, collecting accounts, etc., for a commercial house.
- In mech., to traverse; move over a fixed distance, as a movable part of a machine.
- To proceed or advance in any way; pass from one point to another; move; wander: as, his eye traveled over the landscape; also, to move at a specified gait, pace, or rate: as, that horse travels wide.
- To walk.
- To move onward in feeding; browse from one point to another: said of deer, etc.
- To harass; trouble; plague; torment.
- To journey through; pass over; make the tour of: as, to travel the whole kingdom of England.
- To cause or force to journey, or move from place to place.
- n. Labor; toil; effort.
- n. The act of traveling or journeying; particularly, a journeying to distant countries: as, he is much improved by travel; he started on his travels.
- n. plural An account of occurrences and observations made during a journey; a book that relates one's experiences in traveling: as, travels in Italy: formerly in the singular.
- n. Progress; going; movement.
- n. In mech., the length of stroke of any moving part: as, the travel of the bed of a planer: the travel of a pendulum. Also called excursion.
- n. The passage or concourse of travelers; persons traveling: as, the travel was very heavy on outgoing trains and boats.
- n. Labor in childbirth. See travail, 2.

### from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

- v. travel upon or across
- n. the act of going from one place to another
- n. self-propelled movement
- v. make a trip for pleasure
- n. a movement through space that changes the location of something
- v. travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
- v. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- v. undertake a journey or trip
- v. undergo transportation as in a vehicle

## Etymologies

Middle English _travelen_, alteration of _travailen_, _to toil_, from Old French _travailler_; see _travail_.

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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". More at _fare_. (Wiktionary)

## Same context

|     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| adventure | communication | drive | education | flight |
| journey | labor | march | ride | sport |
| trade | traffic | train | transportation |

## Rhymes

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Havel | Pavel | Ravel | gavel | gravel |
| ravel | unravel |

## Tags

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| ccvcvc |

## Synonyms

|     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| locomotion | travelling | traveling | travel | change of location |
| motive power | motivity | drop dead | motivate | trip |
| operate | belong | incite | buy the farm | give-up the ghost |
| work | choke | go away | get | rifle |
| conk out | cash in one's chips | sound | get going | kick the bucket |
| run | blend | function | lead | endure |
| impress | live | pass away | perish | run short |
| strike | survive | croak | plump | move |
| extend | conk | fit | move around | blend in |
| become | run low | exit | locomote | break |
| proceed | last | decease | propel | give out |
| break down | go | depart | give way | hold up |
| actuate | snuff it | prompt | pass | hold out |
| start | fail | die | act | pop off |
| displace | make a motion | journey | jaunt | live on |
| affect | be active | expire | go bad | turn on |
| trip up | spark off | trigger off | get off | spark |
| touch off | trip out | trigger | activate | set off |
| stumble | turn | excursion | pilgrimage | transit |
| expedition | tour | voyage |

## Antonyms

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| stay in place |