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noun
The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A series of journeys.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
An account of one's travels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Labour; parturition; travail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: range
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To travel throughout (a place).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To force to journey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
To labour; to travail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
self-propelled movement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: locomotion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: motion, movement, move
Narrower terms: brachiation, walk, walking, step, gait, run, running, jog, trot, lope, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, lap, circle, circuit, dance step, stroke
noun
the act of going from one place to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: traveling, travelling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: motion, movement, move
Narrower terms: walk, circumnavigation, peregrination, traversal, traverse, wandering, roving, vagabondage, wayfaring, crossing, driving, riding, horseback riding, air travel, aviation, air, journey, journeying, stage, leg, staging, on the road, on tour, junketing, water travel, seafaring, commutation, commuting
noun
a movement through space that changes the location of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: change of location
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: movement, motion
Narrower terms: ascension, circulation, creep, gravitation, levitation, descent, entrance, entering, fall, flow, flowing, progress, progression, advance, rise, rising, ascent, spread, spreading, stampede, translation
verb
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: go, move, locomote
Antonyms: stay in place
Narrower terms: go around, spread, circulate, carry, ease, whish, float, swap, seek, whine, fly, ride, come, ghost, betake oneself, pass over, overfly, travel, wend, do, raft, get around, get about, repair, resort, cruise, journey, come up, round, trundle, push, travel purposefully, swing, roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond, walk, take the air, weave, wind, thread, meander, forge, spurt, spirt, crawl, creep, scramble, slither, slide, wheel, glide, bounce, jounce, breeze, be adrift, blow, play, swim, turn, move around, circle, slice into, slice through, err, run, step, drive, motor, automobile, ski, wing, steamer, steam, tram, taxi, ferry, caravan, sit, prance, rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, uprise, ascend, descend, fall, go down, come down, zigzag, crank, follow, travel along, advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on, withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back, retrograde, proceed, go forward, continue, back, pan, precede, lead, pursue, return, derail, jump, flock, accompany, billow, angle, pass, go through, go across, travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip, zoom, rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it, trail, shack, shuttle, hiss, whoosh, whisk, career, circuit, lance, outflank, propagate, draw, transfer, change, swash, pace, tread, hurtle, whistle, island hop, plow, plough, lurch, sift, drag, bang, precess, snowshoe, beetle
verb
undergo transportation as in a vehicle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: fly, hop, ride
verb
make a trip for pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: trip, jaunt
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: junketeer, junket, travel to, visit, travel, journey, ply, run, commute, peregrinate
verb
undertake a journey or trip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: journey
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, trip, jaunt
Narrower terms: tour, globe-trot, sledge, voyage, sail, navigate, trek
verb
travel upon or across
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: journey
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: sail, ship, ride, fly, cruise
verb
travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: move around
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: itinerate
History
From Middle English travail, travell, from Old French travail, travaille, travaillie, traval, travalle, traveaul, traveil, traveille, travel. Doublet of travail.
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.
Across languages
352 source translations are retained for this English entry.
