travel

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹævəl/

The English word “travel” has 13 meanings listed here.

verb

To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
To travel throughout (a place).
To force to journey.
To labour; to travail.

noun

The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
A series of journeys.
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.
Labour; parturition; travail.
Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.

Etymology

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…

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