English

Etymology

From Old French word travailler meaning "to trouble, to suffer, or be worn out". See also travail .

Intransitive verb

to travel (present participle travelling (British), traveling (US), past tense and past participle travelled (British), traveled (US))

1. To go from one country to another for pleasure or business.

   I like to travel.

2. To go from one place to another; to pass from here to there, to move or transmit.

   Soundwaves can travel through water

3. (basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.

Translations

go from one place to another

go from one country to another for pleasure or business.

in basketball

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is unreliable.

• CJK Characters: 迋
• Chinese: 旅行 (1)
• Dutch: reizen (1)
• Hungarian: utazik
• Interlingua: viagiar
• Norwegian: reise
• Romanian: călători (1)
• Volapük: tävön (- lü)

Transitive verb

1. To travel throughout (a place).

   I've travelled the world.

Noun

travel (uncountable and countable; plural travels)

1. The act of travel(l)ing.

   space travel

   travel to Spain

2. (in plural travels) Journeys, travel(l)ing.

   I'm off on my travels around France again.

Translations

act of travel(l)ing

in plural: journeys, travel(l)ing