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[trav-uh l] /ˈtræv əl/
verb (used without object), traveled, traveling or (especially British) travelled, travelling.
to travel for pleasure.
to move or go from one place or point to another.
to proceed or advance in any way.
to associate or consort:
He travels in a wealthy crowd.
Informal. to move with speed.
to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
Basketball. walk (def 9).
verb (used with object), traveled, traveling or (especially British) travelled, travelling.
to journey or traverse (a specified distance):
We traveled a hundred miles.
to cause to journey; ship:
to travel logs downriver.
the act of traveling; journeying, especially to distant places:
to travel to other planets.
  1. journeys; wanderings:
    to set out on one's travels.
  2. journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work:
    a book of travels.
  3. such an account or work.
the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic:
an increase in travel on state roads.
  1. the complete movement of a moving part, especially a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke.
  2. length of stroke.
movement or passage in general:
to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.
used or designed for use while traveling:
a travel alarm clock.
Origin of travel
1325-75; Middle English (north and Scots), orig. the same word as travail (by shift “to toil, labor” > “to make a laborious journey”)
Related forms
travelable, adjective
nontraveling, adjective
nontravelling, adjective
outtravel, verb (used with object), outtraveled, outtraveling or (especially British) outtravelled, outtravelling.
pretravel, noun, verb, pretraveled, pretraveling or (especially British) pretravelled, pretravelling.
untraveling, adjective
untravelling, adjective
Usage note
The word travel has come to exemplify a common spelling quandary: to double or not to double the final consonant of a verb before adding the ending that forms the past tense (–ed) or the ending that forms the present-participle (–ing.) We see it done both ways—sometimes with the same word (travel, traveled, traveling; travel, travelled, travelling). As readers, we accept these variations without even thinking about them. But as writers, we need to know just when we should double that final consonant and when we should not. Because American practice differs slightly from British practice, there is no one answer. But there are well-established conventions.
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verb (mainly intransitive) -els, -elling, -elled (US) -els, -eling, -eled
to go, move, or journey from one place to another: he travels to improve his mind, she travelled across France
(transitive) to go, move, or journey through or across (an area, region, etc): he travelled the country
to go, move, or cover a specified or unspecified distance
to go from place to place as a salesman: to travel in textiles
(esp of perishable goods) to withstand a journey
(of light, sound, etc) to be transmitted or move: the sound travelled for miles
to progress or advance
(basketball) to take an excessive number of steps while holding the ball
(of part of a mechanism) to move in a fixed predetermined path
(informal) to move rapidly: that car certainly travels
(often foll by with) (informal) to be in the company (of); associate
  1. the act of travelling
  2. (as modifier): a travel brochure, related adjective itinerant
(usually pl) a tour or journey
the distance moved by a mechanical part, such as the stroke of a piston
movement or passage
Word Origin
C14 travaillen to make a journey, from Old French travaillier to travail
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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