a journeying into the past or the future, as in science fiction
noun
Time travel is a science fiction concept in which people are able to move backwards into the past or forwards into the future.
An example of time travel is when a person in the year 2011 goes back to the year 1900.
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Noun
(uncountable)
Noun
(uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of time travel.
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Sentence Examples
- Risk taking storylines included time-travel, visiting heaven’s gates, a lost city buried beneath a mountain and a soap opera within a soap.
- There is an air of finality to the character's choices this season and while a time-travel storyline indulges viewers with alternate endings.
- Hot on the heels of the time-travel storyline, Viki, Tina, Cord, Gabrielle and others were trapped within the lost city of Eterna.
Words near time travel in the dictionary
- time travel
- time-traveler
- time-travelers
- time-traveller