# travel

Pronunciation: say "TRAV-uhl" /ˈtɹævəl/

## Verb

1. To make a journey or journeys, going from one place to another or throughout a region, often for pleasure or business.
   - Simple: To go from one place to another, or all around a place, especially on a trip for fun or work.
   - _They travel abroad several times a year for work._
   - _Many families travel during the winter holidays._
3. To go, or be conveyed, between places; to move or be transmitted.
   - Simple: To move or pass from one place to another.
   - _News of the victory traveled quickly across the region._
   - _Radio waves travel at the speed of light._
6. In basketball, to move illegally by taking steps while holding the ball without dribbling it.
   - Simple: In basketball, to move your feet illegally while holding the ball without bouncing it.
   - _He traveled on the baseline and lost possession._
   - _Rookies often travel when they panic under pressure._

## Noun

2. The act of making a journey; passage from one place to another.
   - Simple: The act of going from one place to another.
   - _Travel between the islands requires a long ferry ride._
   - _She has always had a deep love of travel._
4. A spoken or written account of the journeys a person has made.
   - Simple: A written or spoken story about the trips a person has made.
   - _Her travels were published as a slim volume the following spring._
   - _Readers loved his travels for their vivid descriptions of distant markets._
5. The activity or traffic moving along a route or through a particular point.
   - Simple: The movement of people or vehicles along a road or through a place.
   - _Travel through the tunnel doubled after the new highway opened._
   - _The old bridge will be closed to all travel until Monday._
7. The movement of a machine part, or the distance it moves in a single stroke or press, such as the downward movement of a keyboard key.
   - Simple: How far a moving part of a machine, such as a key on a keyboard, moves when it works or is pressed.
   - _Engineers reduced the travel of the valve to improve efficiency._
   - _The suspension allows several inches of travel over rough ground._

## Verb

8. To toil or labor; to exert oneself with great effort. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To work very hard, or to struggle with great effort.

## Noun

9. The labor of childbirth; the effort and pain of giving birth. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The hard work and pain of giving birth.

## Other meanings

- (verb) To compel or force a person or animal to make a journey.

## Origin

**Meanings 1, 3, 6, 8** — Old French travailler, meaning "to trouble, suffer, be worn out," gave Middle English travaillen ("to toil, work"). An altered form in Middle Scots, travailen ("to toil, work, travel"), led to travelen, the Middle English verb meaning "to make a laborious journey," which is the source of the word. Travail is a doublet, and travel largely pushed out the native word fare.
**Meanings 2, 4–5, 7, 9** — This comes from Middle English travail, from Old French travail, and is a doublet of travail.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/travel (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).