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travel Definition

travel (trav′əl)

intransitive verb -·eled or -·elled, -·el·ing or -·el·ling

  1. to go from one place to another; make a journey or journeys
  2. to go from place to place as a traveling salesman
  3. to walk or run
  4. to move, pass, or be transmitted from one point or place to another
  5. to move or be capable of moving in a given path or for a given distance: said of mechanical parts, etc.
  6. to advance or progress
  7. ☆ Basketball to illegally move both feet while holding the ball
  8. Informal to associate or spend time (with)
  9. Informal to move with speed

Etymology: var. of travail

transitive verb

  1. to make a journey over or through; traverse
  2. Informal to cause to move or pass along

noun

  1. the act or process of traveling
    1. the trips, journeys, tours, etc. taken by a person or persons
    2. an account of these
  3. passage or movement of any kind
  4. traffic on a route, through a place, etc.
    1. mechanical motion, esp. reciprocating motion
    2. the distance of a mechanical stroke, etc.

travel Synonyms

travel

n.

  1. The act of journeying

    riding, roving, wandering, rambling, sailing, touring, biking, hiking, cruising, driving, wayfaring, going abroad, seeing the world, sight-seeing, voyaging, trekking, flying, globe-trotting, space travel, rocketing, orbiting, manning a space station, interstellar travel, intercontinental travel, jet travel.

  2. An individual journey

    tour, voyage, trip; see journey.

travel Synonyms

travel

v.

  1. To move at a regular pace

    cover ground, progress, go; see move 1.

  2. To journey

    tour, cruise, voyage, commute, roam, explore, jet, rocket, orbit, go into orbit, take a jet, go by jet, migrate, trek, vacation, motor, visit, jaunt, wander, junket, adventure, quest, trip, rove, inspect, make an expedition, make a peregrination, cross the continent, cross the ocean, encircle the globe, make the grand tour, sail, see the country, go camping, go abroad, take a trip, take a train, take a boat, take a plane, cover, go walking, go riding, go bicycling, make a train trip, drive, fly, traverse, set out, set forth, sight-see, scour the country*, bat around*; see also walk 1.

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travel Usage Examples

Object

  • distance: You should ideally be within sensible traveling distance of our Oxfordshire base.
  • expense: What traveling expenses are allowed in calculating the deemed payment?
  • mile: I always seem to end up traveling mile to t.. .
  • salesman: At the time, James was a traveling salesman dealing in hardware, perhaps for his father's business.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • through: They will act as expert guides to the area you travel through.

Preposition: at

  • mph: The Formal Inquiry found that the train was traveling at 70 mph.

Adjective modifier

  • unlimited: Apart from a few exceptions, it allows holders unlimited travel on any DB train.
  • concessionary: The council says the changes will also be fairer to people with disabilities, who have now been given greater access to concessionary travel.
  • onward: Busses cross the Skye Bridge for onward travel across the island of Skye.

Modifies a noun

  • agent: Please send all invoices you might receive from travel agents to Margaret.
  • expense: Travel expenses would be paid for the volunteer coaches.
  • insurance: Return to the who is holiday travel insurance serious.
  • cot: A travel cot is available for those traveling with a young baby.
  • arrangement: I would ask you to note particularly the special travel arrangements that have been made.
  • guide: Czech travel guide, Prague Czech and Prague travel guide.

Adjective complement

  • southbound: There is a $ 5 fee to travel southbound, while northbound is absolutely free.

Noun used with modifier

  • air: Or go greener... The carbon cost of traveling by ferry is around 30 times less than air travel.
  • adventure: Australian by birth, he has worked in adventure travel since 1967.
  • bus: Make the free bus travel pass open to all districts in the county and stop the pensioner discrimination.
  • coach: We can help you with all your coach travel requirements for any size of group here in the Midlands.
travel Quotes

   I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. 832

—Swift,Jonathan

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot. 12

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great† The effect of travel ona manwhoseheart isintheright place isthatthemind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resourcesöthere isgreater presence of mind† The sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God: it proves a tonic to the system, and actually a blessing. No one can trulyappreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion.

—Livingstone, Dr David

Good travel books are novels at heart.

—Raban,Jonathan

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

—Tennyson

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

—Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine

Do not plan long journeys, because whatever you believe in you have already seen.When a thing is everywhere, the way to find it is not to travel but to love.

—St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus

The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here todayöin next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumpedöalways somebody else's horizon!

—Grahame, Kenneth

To travel hopefully is a better thing thantoarrive, and the true success is to labour.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Voyager, c'est bien utile,  c° a fait travailler l'imagination. Tout le reste n'est que de¤  ceptions et fatigues. Notre voyage a'   nous est entie'  rement imaginaire.Voila'   sa force. To travel is useful. It engages the imagination. Everything else is deceitful and boring.Our own voyage is entirely imaginary. And therein lies its force.

—Destouches

For my part,Itravel not to go anywhere, but to go.Itravel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Iwill not permitthirtymentotravelfourhundredmilesto agitate a bag of wind.

—White, Andrew Dickson

Travel is fatal to prejudice.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Extensive travelling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

—Theroux, Paul Edward

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

—Whitman,Walt(er)

Of all the pleasures in the world, travel is (in my opinion) the sweetest and most delightful.

—Coryate,Thomas

In America there are two classes of travelöfirst class, and with children.

—Benchley, Robert Charles

   You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called byanyother name, iswhy you yearn for the first available transport out.But what bores whom?† The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us.

—Gellhorn, Martha Ellis

Writing and travel broadenyourassif not yourmindand I like to write standing up.

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar