travel
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
Verb 4 meanings
To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
“John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.”
To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
“Soundwaves can travel through water.”
To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
To travel throughout (a place).
“I’ve travelled the world.”
Noun 4 meanings
The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
“I like travel, but it’s always too tiring.”
A series of journeys.
“I’m off on my travels around France again.”
An account of one's travels.
“He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.”
The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublets travail and travois.
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TRAVEL at a glance
TRAVEL has 6 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + V 4 + E 1 + L 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,061 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with travel
All rhymesOne letter away
- GRAVEL10
- TRAVES9
- TRAMEL8
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