English Dictionary: travel | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Travel \Trav"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Traveled}or {Travelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Traveling} or {Travelling}.] [Properly, to labor, and the same word as travail.] 1. To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] --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. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Travel \Trav"el\, v. t. 1. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. [bd]I travel this profound.[b8] --Milton. 2. To force to journey. [R.] They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Travel \Trav"el\, n. 1. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey. With long travel I am stiff and weary. --Shak. His travels ended at his country seat. --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. (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve. 4. Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.] |