Definition of "travel"

travel

/ˈtɹævəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled
1. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
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  He that feareth oblatration must not travel.
  1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.
  Then, when Moses had fulfilled the term, and was travelling with his housefolk, he saw in the distance a fire and said unto his housefolk: Bide ye (here). Lo! I see in the distance a fire; peradventure I shall bring you tidings thence, or a brand from the fire that ye may warm yourselves.
  1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 28, verse 29
2. (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
3. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
4. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
5. (transitive) To force to journey.
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  They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.
  1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […]; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809,
6. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
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  Necessity will make men fare hard, and work hard, and travel hard, go bare, and suffer much; yea it will even cut off a leg or arm to save their lives;
  1707, Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter, page 646
  We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.
  1719, William Tilly, The Acceptable Sacrifice, page 335
  Man holds in constant service bound The blustering winds and seas; Nor suns disdain to travel hard Their master, man, to please;
  1794, “Resignation”, in A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.Volume 10, page 144
noun
countable and uncountable, plural travels
1. The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
2. (in the plural) A series of journeys.
  Quotations
  But overall, I think the railway delivered very well on my travels. I'd give it 9/10 - there are just a few little rough edges that need smoothing off.
  2023 November 29, 'Mystery Shopper', “Does the railway deliver for passengers?”, in RAIL, number 997, page 53
3. (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
  Quotations
  CALUAT, s. This in some old travels is used for Ar. khilwat, 'privacy, a private interview' (C. P. Brown, MS.).
  1903, Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell, Hobson-Jobson
4. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
5. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
6. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
  Quotations
  Hard Labour is when more vehement Pains and dangerous Symptomes happen to Women in Travel, and continue a longer time.
  1667, John Tanner, The hidden treasures of the art of physick, page 208
7. Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.

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