travel
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (6)travelled, travelling, travels, traveled, traveling
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically“How fast does your new car go?”“We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus”“The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect”“The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell”“news travelled fast”Synonyms: gomovelocomoteMore general act, moveMore specific come, enter, walk, leave, return, follow, descend, ride, rise, rush +108 moreSimilar move, displace
- undertake a journey or tripSynonyms: journeyMore general trip, jauntMore specific tour, voyage, trek, sledge, globe-trotSimilar journey
- make a trip for pleasureSynonyms: tripjauntMore general go, moveMore specific travel to, journey, commute, peregrinate, ply, junketeerCauses go, move
- travel upon or across“travel the oceans”Synonyms: journeyMore general go, moveMore specific sail, cruise, fly, ride, shipSimilar journey
- undergo transportation as in a vehicle“We travelled North on Rte. 508”More general go, moveMore specific ride, hop, fly
- travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judgeSynonyms: move aroundMore general go, moveMore specific itinerate
Noun (3)travels
- the act of going from one place to another“he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel”Synonyms: travelingtravellingType of motion, movementKinds journey, commutation, walk, stage, crossing, on the road, traversal, circumnavigation, driving, riding +7 more
- a movement through space that changes the location of somethingSynonyms: change of locationType of movement, motionKinds flow, progress, entrance, spread, descent, translation, rise, circulation, gravitation, stampede +3 more
- self-propelled movementSynonyms: locomotionType of motion, movementKinds step, walk, run, lap, jog, gait, brachiation, crawl, stroke, dance step
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Translations
Verb be on a journey
- Spanish
- viajar
- French
- voyager
- German
- reisen
- Italian
- viaggiare
- Portuguese
- viajar
- Turkish
- yolculuk etmek
- Russian
- путеше́ствовать putešéstvovatʹ
- Arabic
- سَافَرَ sāfara
- Chinese
- 旅行 lǚxíng
- Japanese
- 旅行する ryokō suru
36 more languages
- Dutch
- reizen
- Polish
- podróżować
- Swedish
- resa
- Greek
- ταξιδεύω taxidévo
- Korean
- 여행하다 yeohaenghada
- Indonesian
- bepergian
- Vietnamese
- du lịch
- Hungarian
- utazik
- Portuguese (PT)
- viajar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 旅行 lǚxíng
- Albanian
- udhëtoj
- Breton
- beajiñ
- Catalan
- viatjar
- Corsican
- viaghjà
- Czech
- cestovat
- Danish
- rejse
- Esperanto
- vojaĝi
- Estonian
- reisima
- Finnish
- matkustaa
- Georgian
- მოგზაურობა mogzauroba
- Hebrew
- נסע nasá
- Icelandic
- ferðast
- Kurdish
- rêwîtî kirin
- Latvian
- ceļot
- Lithuanian
- keliauti
- Malagasy
- mivahiny
- Norwegian
- reise
- Romanian
- călători
- Scottish Gaelic
- siubhail
- Serbo-Croatian
- putovati
- Slovak
- cestovať
- Slovenian
- potovati
- Swahili
- safiri
- Walloon
- voyaedjî
- Welsh
- teithio
- Yiddish
- רײַזן rayzn
Noun act of traveling
- Spanish
- viaje
- French
- voyage
- German
- Reisen
- Italian
- viaggio
- Portuguese
- viagem
- Turkish
- seyahat
- Russian
- путеше́ствие putešéstvije
- Arabic
- سَفَر safar
- Chinese
- 旅行 lǚxíng
- Japanese
- 旅行 ryokō
36 more languages
- Dutch
- reizen
- Polish
- podróżowanie
- Swedish
- resa
- Greek
- ταξίδι taxídi
- Korean
- 여행 yeohaeng
- Indonesian
- perjalanan
- Vietnamese
- du lịch
- Hungarian
- utazás
- Portuguese (PT)
- viagem
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 旅行 lǚxíng
- Albanian
- udhëtim
- Breton
- beajiñ
- Catalan
- viatge
- Corsican
- viaghju
- Czech
- cestování
- Danish
- rejse
- Esperanto
- vojaĝado
- Estonian
- reisimine
- Finnish
- matkailu
- Georgian
- მოგზაურობა mogzauroba
- Hebrew
- נסיעה nesi'a
- Icelandic
- ferðalög
- Kurdish
- sefer
- Latvian
- ceļošana
- Lithuanian
- keliavimas
- Malagasy
- dia
- Norwegian
- reise
- Romanian
- călătorie
- Scottish Gaelic
- siubhal
- Serbo-Croatian
- putovanje
- Slovak
- cestovanie
- Slovenian
- potovanje
- Swahili
- safari
- Walloon
- voyaedje
- Welsh
- teithio
- Yiddish
- נסיעה nesie
Verb pass from here to there
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.
1. To labor; to travail. Obsoles. Richard Hooker
2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
4. To pass; to go; to move.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.— William Shakespeare
1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. “I travel this profound.” John Milton
2. To force to journey. rare
They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.— Edmund Spenser
1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
With long travel I am stiff and weary.— William Shakespeare
His travels ended at his country seat.— John Dryden
2. pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; — often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
3. Machinery The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
4. Labor; parturition; travail. obsolete
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54