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单词 travel
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traveln.

Brit. /ˈtravl/, U.S. /ˈtræv(ə)l/
Forms:

α. Middle English trauayl, Middle English trauayll, Middle English–1600s trauaile, Middle English–1600s travayle, 1500s trauaille, 1500s trauaylle, 1500s–1600s trauayle, 1500s–1600s traueile, 1500s–1600s travaile, 1500s–1600s travaill, 1500s–1700s travail; also Scottish pre-1700 trauaill, pre-1700 trauaille, pre-1700 travale, pre-1700 travayhle, pre-1700 traveil, pre-1700 trawaile, pre-1700 trawaill, pre-1700 trawal, pre-1700 trawale, pre-1700 trawall, pre-1700 trawayle, pre-1700 trawaylle; N.E.D. (1914) also records the forms Middle English trauayle, Middle English travail, Middle English travall.

β. Middle English–1700s travell, 1500s trauyll, 1500s–1600s trauell, 1500s– travel; also Scottish pre-1700 trawell, pre-1700 trewell, 1700s travell, 1800s tra'el, 1800s– traivel, 1900s traevil (Shetland); Irish English (northern) 1900s– thravel, 1900s– trevel; N.E.D. (1914) also records a form Middle English travel.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: travail n.1
Etymology: Originally a variant of travail n.1, now differentiated in form in the senses below.Compare Anglo-Norman traval, travaille act or action of travelling (second half of the 13th cent.). The modern standard spelling reflects reduction of the vowel in the second syllable, due to shift of stress from the second to the first syllable.
1.
a. The action of travelling or making a journey, esp. to distant places or through foreign lands.Frequently with defining word, as in business travel, rail travel, space travel, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > [noun]
yongc950
gangOE
goinga1250
walka1300
journeyingc1330
travela1400
progressionc1450
wayfarec1450
travelling1489
wayfaring1536
gate-going?1555
thorough-faring?1575
faring1594
fidging1604
voyaging1611
voyage1626
winning1651
locomotion1759
itinerating1770
passing1821
trekking1850
trooping1888
α.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14170 (MED) Þei preyed him as lord dere For his frende þat was vnfere Trauaile to him þat he wolde make.
c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 9 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 458 Þe trawalouris..for trawale ware wery.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. E.iiii After a yeeres trauaile abrode.
1660 T. Blount Boscobel 31 His feet..much galled with travail.
β. 1409 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1915) II. 177 (MED) It is ordand that no man of the sayd crafte sall putte nor sette no sho to no hors fote apon the Sonondays to no custumer, bot if it so be that the same custumer be putt to travell at the same day and nedelyng behoves for to travell.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 664 My twa sonnys with ȝow sall I Send to tak with ȝow trawell [rhyme fale].1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 65 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 263 I pray grit god him speid him haill & sound in to his travell.1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 33 The way is short, & the trauell easye.1650 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 464 The wayes are everywhere unsafe for travell.1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 201 The advantage of travel..was by seeing a great deal both of men and manners.1897 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 2/3 Continental travel is looking up. By travel we mean quick and comfortable travel.1935 Amer. Mercury Feb. 131/1 During the fall of 1932 ‘Hoover-wagons’ appeared in great numbers and have since become the established mode of travel for untold thousands.2018 N. Chung All you can ever Know 185 I was..in the depths of early pregnancy fatigue, worn out and cranky after ten hours of travel with a toddler.
b.
(a) An act or period of travelling, esp. to distant places or through foreign lands; a journey. Now chiefly in plural, except in regional use.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun]
forec900
wayOE
farec1000
sitheOE
gangOE
journey?c1225
gatea1300
pilgrimagec1300
voyage1338
wending1340
raik?c1350
turna1400
repairc1425
went1430
reisea1450
progressionc1450
progressa1460
race1513
peregrination1548
travel1559
passance1580
dogtrot1856
trek1895
ulendo1921
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > journeys
peregrinations?1549
travel1559
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse Pref. sig. Avv His eloquence, prudence,..& other like vertues..insued of hys perigrinations, & trauails.
1615 J. Day Festivals 56 He made (as it were) foure Travailes.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria in Fables 259 His Travels ended at his Country-Seat.
1753 C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 84 I was unwilling he should undertake such a travel.
1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 6 Soon after we find him on his travels in Italy.
1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 227/2 [Westmorland] Es ya wad see in a day's travel.
1969 E. Connell Mr Bridge lxx. 307 I believe Mother has kept you informed of our travels up to this point, so I shall not summarize.
2019 Guardian (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Fashion section) I always keep my eye out and try to visit vintage stores on my travels.
(b) Scottish. A walk; a journey on foot. Also in to take (one’s) travel: to take to one's feet; to start walking.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > a walk or journey on foot
walkc1405
walking1542
footwalk1599
travel1724
tramp1787
foot tramp1808
foot tour1841
1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden 61 Out of her great Desire to have her Child Baptised before he came off, she took Travail too soon.
1756 M. Calderwood Journey 221 We came out and walked... However, I did not grudge my travell.
1856 M. Oliphant Lilliesleaf xlix. 301 I rose up from my seat, and took my travel about the room.
1897 R. M. Calder Poems 233 We dread the lang travel owre hill an' owre muir.
1965 Northern Scot 8 May 55 There's lang traivels in the wark o' the postie.
1996 W. G. McPherson in S. Stronach New Wirds 59 Well, they gid oot for a traivel in the wid ae fine hairst nicht, an they waar jokin an lauchin thegidder.
c. In plural. A written account of such journeys. Frequently (and earliest) in the titles of published works.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun]
itinerary1483
peregrination1548
travels1579
voyage1587
itinerario1588
journal1600
trip1712
itinerarium1747
logbook1791
tour1812
log1825
travel document1892
travelogue1898
1579 J. Frampton tr. M. Polo (title) The most noble and famous trauels of Marcus Paulus, one of the nobilitie of the state of Venice, into the East partes of the world.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Travels, Journeys, Voyages; or a Book giving a particular Account of such Voyages.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. ii. 255 We possess the travels of a native of that country in India in the fourth century.
2017 B. Ghosh (title) Gazing at neighbours: travels along the line that partitioned India.
2.
a. More generally: the action of moving or passing along a course or path, or over a distance.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun] > specifically of things
travel1634
ition1668
locomotion1670
translation1715
1634 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Maxims of Holy Court i. 4 in Holy Court III. Our Religion goes much further then the sun, and this inferiour condition of the world. It hath the total vniverse for obiect of it's trauel, and the Kingdome of heauen for it's repose.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 40 [A comet] revisits Earth, From the long Travel of a thousand Years.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 701/2 The more the variety of characters is multiplied, the more ‘travel’ of the compositor's hand over the cases is necessary for picking them up.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 843 Cardiomotive force is equal to the output of the heart plus the resistance to the travel of the blood in the vascular system.
2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. iii. 27 Although particles in the atmosphere absorb some light, they reduce visibility primarily by scattering (i.e., deflecting the direction of travel) of light.
b. The motion of a device or some part of a mechanism, such as a piston, that is constrained to move along a fixed course during operation, such as in a circuit or to and fro; (also) the distance through which such a part moves.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > movement of parts
travel1799
side play1808
1799 Philos. Mag. 5 41 Travel of the piston in this cylinder from five to seven feet per stroke.
1883 Times 8 Feb. A thin copper rod moved slowly backwards and forwards over them, with a travel of about 2 in.
1960 Pop. Boating Jan. 64/2 The sparks must be produced at the proper time in relationship to the piston's travel.
2003 Winnipeg Free Press 5 Dec. e2/5 Start the engine and turn the steering wheel all the way to the end of its travel.
3. (The number of) people, vehicles, etc., passing along or using a road, path, etc.; traffic. rare.
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society > travel > [noun] > travelling to and fro
running?1764
peripatetics1769
travel1784
the trots1936
shuttling1937
trippage1941
1784 J. Byng Diary 4 July in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 141 Turnpikes are now set up in the country, but I can't imagine (the travell being so small) who repair'd, or does maintain the roads; unless it be by a county sess.
1844 T. Hood Haunted House i, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 3 Each walk as green as is the mantled pool, For want of human travel.
2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 4 Sept. b11 The roads..were poorly suited for heavy travel.
†4. Capacity or force of movement. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun] > faculty or opportunity of
coursec1400
locomotive faculty1612
locomotive power1640
locomotive1649
locomotivity1752
mobility1777
locomobility1785
travel1816
locomotility1828
motiveness1828
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. i. 11 The breaker, was never able to bring her under command. She has more travel than any bitch I ever knew.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 625 A dog of high travel..will drive [sheep] hither and thither.
1892 Daily News 31 Dec. 3/4 A crew of men in the boat kept her rocking rapidly from side to side to give her more force and travel.

Phrases

Proverb. travel broadens (also enlarges) the mind: travel enables a person to learn new things or to see different points of view.
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1837 Hull Packet 28 July 4/4 We have been told..that one of the candidates for your suffrages has been a great traveller, and that travel enlarges the mind and the principles.
2019 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 30 Jan. They say that travel broadens the mind and it's always important to look at and learn from other cultures and nationalities.

Compounds

Many compounds of travel have parallel forms with travelling.The forms with travelling are frequently attested earlier than those with travel, but the latter are usually now more common. Cf., for example, travel expenses n. at Compounds 2 with travelling expenses n. at travelling n. Compounds 2, travel card n. with travelling card at travelling n. Compounds 1d, and travel guide n. with travelling guide at travelling n. Compounds 1a.
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a. General use as a modifier, as in travel companion, travel itinerary, etc.
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1751 tr. Lett. Ninon de Lenclos xxx. 148 My Travel-Companion rallies me at a strange Rate, and alledges I am writing a Love-Letter.
1858 Atlantic Monthly July 212/1 ‘You knew the Duke of Rosecouleur in Europe?’ ‘At Paris, yes,—and in Italy he was a travel friend.’
1979 R. Jeffries Murder begets Murder xv. 91 Sun from dawn to dusk just like the travel posters had promised.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 15 Aug. f1/1 The agency will offer customized travel itineraries and package its own line of signature tours.
2012 Independent 3 Sept. 27/1 Israel has more reason to be concerned about its image abroad, if the official travel advisories issued to would-be tourists are anything to go by.
b. As a modifier, with the sense ‘(of a film, book, etc.) about a person's travels, or travelling more generally; (of a person) writing, speaking, etc., about his or her travels, or travelling more generally’, as in travel documentary, travel lecturer, etc.
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1784 J. Marjoribanks Trifles in Verse I. 164 And read in voyages, and travel books, From good old Raleigh's down to Captain Cook's.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 7/1 A literary man who writes travel articles in the Anglo-American magazines.
1901 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 14 Jan. 6/3 Mr. Robert Harper of London, the travel lecturer with superbly illustrated and dissolving views and motion pictures.
1978 A. Waugh Best Wine Last ix. 107 Marrakesh has been a subject of many articles and travel films.
2014 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 16 June 1/1 Lang..brings the stories of eight Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Korea and Vietnam to life in this travel-documentary about experiences with ‘Beyond Glory’.
c. As a modifier, with the sense ‘used when travelling; designed for travel, (now) esp. in being small, compact, folding, or otherwise easy to transport’, as in travel bag, travel cloak, travel clock, etc.
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1871 E. E. Hale in Old & New Aug. 222/2 She was not always heavy-shoed. When she had put off her travel-dress, and came down for dinner, she was in exquisite German neatness of toilet.
1901 Austral. Star (Sydney) 13 Mar. 8/4 (advt.) Useful as either a warm travel-Cloak or wet-weather Garment.
1908 Warren (Pa.) Evening Mirror 11 Dec. 6/2 (advt.) A fine line of Mantel, Library, Hall and Travel Clocks in onyx, ebony, gilt and antique woods.
1968 L. Deighton Only when I Larf i. 9 Umbrella in one hand, travel bag in the other, he marched off.
1998 What Cellphone Aug. 81/2 The RC715 also has an edge connector on its base, used for connecting the supplied travel-charger or a Sagem car kit.
2014 Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Weekend section) 29 Then we braved the Grand Bazaar and haggled to get a few lira off a wooden travel chess set.
d. As a modifier, designating a ticket, document, etc., authorizing, required for, or permitting travel, as in travel permit, travel voucher, etc.
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1891 J. G. Blaine Let. 5 Nov. in Papers relating to Foreign Relations 765 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (52nd Congr., 2nd Sess., House of Representatives Executive Doc. 1, Pt. 1) (1892) I Should Mr. Richardson have received his travel permit, it will not be necessary for Mr. Gargiulo to go to Erzerum.
1949 D. Thomas Let. 1 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 341 I must..hurry everything up, as visas, travel-tickets, etc., cannot be too easy to procure.
1952 ‘R. West’ Meaning of Treason (ed. 2) i. vii. 156 A travel warrant issued by the Ministry of Labour.
2006 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) 17 Dec. 6/5 Goniwe was also among the first MPs named in the Travelgate investigation into the fraudulent use of official travel vouchers.
e. As a modifier, with the sense ‘by or as a result of travel’, as in travel-wearied, travel-worn, etc.Chiefly with past participles.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > by or of travel
travel-worn1596
way-wearied1618
way-beaten1620
wayworn1758
way-spent1777
way-sore1797
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig, F3 Like as some travel-tired passenger, By silent-sliding Thames rose-shadow'd side..Sits downe to view the sight-reviving slide.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 36 Trauell tainted as I am. View more context for this quotation
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 125 Panting and travel-soiled he stood.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xliv. 38 Her travel-stained dress.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xx. 205 The condition of my own travel-broken animals.
1919 W. de la Mare Flora 40 Noonday to night the enigma of thine eyes Frets with desire their travel-wearied brain.
2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Jan. (Features section) 6 The main eating venue..aims to lead guests on a journey of gastronomic discovery and has a travel-themed décor to match, ranging from travel-worn trunks to precious fabrics.
f. With present participles and agent nouns, forming compounds in which travel expresses the object of the underlying verb, as travel-lover, travel-hating, etc.
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1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy II. 324 Credit your travel-mongers about the character of the Italians.
1881 C. McFadden Parsonage in India i. 6 ‘Child! child!’ said the old travel-lover, who is none other than Mrs. Hesse, the widow of Major Hesse.
2007 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Weekend Post section) 13 Macon Leary..writes travel guides for travel-hating businessmen.
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travel agency n. a firm which makes arrangements for the transport, accommodation, etc., of travellers, and which acts as an agent for tour operators.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > plan or scheme of travel > travel agency
travel bureau1884
travel agency1898
society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > travel agent > travel-agency
travel bureau1884
travel agency1898
1898 Financial Times 15 July 6/7 They are going, with the aid of Messrs. Gaze, the well-known travel agency, to extend the system of the booking of railway and steamer tickets to any part of the world.
1927 World Travel Oct. 39/2 (advt.) Imperial Airways. Daily Services Between London Cologne Brussels Paris... Book through any Travel Agency or direct with the Company.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 July (Travel section) 3/5 If you'd prefer a cruise ship to the do-it-yourself approach of ferry hopping, you might want to visit a travel agency in Dubrovnik.
travel agent n. a person who owns or works for a travel agency; (also) a travel agency.
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society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > travel agent
travel agent1885
society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > plan or scheme of travel > travel agency > travel agent
travel agent1885
1885 Dubuque (Iowa) Sunday Herald 21 June We are under many obligations to..W. C. Shoemaker, traveling passenger agent, C. E. Dudrow, travel-agent, B. F. Bond, division passenger agent.
1925 Times 1 May 2/2 (advt.) Write to-day for your copy of ‘Economy Tours to America’, to..leading Travel agents.
1971 Guardian 29 Sept. 18/4 A visit to Argungu can be organized through a travel agent but the accommodation would probably be a safari tent.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Feb. (Front section) 8 (advt.) At Liberty Travel, I'm not just a travel agent. I'm a certified dream maker. I'm the person behind your travel plans.
travel brochure n. a brochure or pamphlet advertising holidays, trips, etc., and describing the features and amenities of destinations and resorts.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > plan or scheme of travel > travel brochure
travel brochure1908
travel folder1911
1908 M.A.P. 15 Aug. 167/1 (advt.) Illustrated Travel Brochure: ‘Aids to the Choice of a Holiday Resort’.
1953 P. Scott Alien Sky i. vi. 75 A plan I have to issue highly coloured travel brochures with a photo of myself on an elephant.
2003 New Scientist 20 Sept. 80/4 I was reading a travel brochure that told me that my cruise ship had a bow bulb on the prow of the ship.
travel bug n. colloquial (with the) a strong desire to travel; an obsessive enthusiasm for or addiction to travelling; cf. bug n.2 4b, wanderlust n.Frequently in figurative expressions alluding to illness or insects, as to be bitten by the travel bug.
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society > travel > [noun] > desire or fondness for
go-fever1875
travel sickness1894
trek fever1897
wanderlust1902
travel bug1907
wander-spirit1927
1907 Philadelphia Inquirer 27 Oct. 2 a/7 Almost every hamlet in the South has been found to have been stung by the European ‘travel bug’.
1957 Daily Mail 21 Oct. 12/4 (caption) Bitten by the travel-bug, here she is in a ski-ing outfit ready to race the competition winner to Switzerland!
2016 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 18 May (Features section) 44 Finding a cruise ship job seems like the dream job to many people. If you've got the travel bug, it seems like the ideal option.
travel bureau n. a firm which makes arrangements for the transport, accommodation, etc., of travellers, and which acts as an agent for tour operators; = travel agency n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > plan or scheme of travel > travel agency
travel bureau1884
travel agency1898
society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > travel agent > travel-agency
travel bureau1884
travel agency1898
1884 Amer. Settler 13 Sept. 83/2 Tourists..can, on application to the Travel Bureau of the American Exchange, secure round trip tickets which, for very moderate sums, will enable them to visit New York.
1930 E. Waugh Labels iii. 51 Their speech is rich with the words of the travel bureau's advertising manager.
2008 National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 6 You are reliant on the decency of the host property owner and the willingness of the online travel bureau to accept responsibility for the situation.
travel expenses n. travel costs incurred in the course of performing one's job or undertaking a particular task (esp. for another person); an amount of money paid by one's employer, a beneficiary, etc., in reimbursement of this; cf. earlier travelling expenses n. at travelling n. Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses > other expenses
reparation1421
out-rent1475
farmage1650
tavernryc1650
travelling expenses1653
capital expenditure1834
capital outlay1834
travel expenses1839
capital cost1841
operating expenses1850
repair bill1858
carrying charge1879
capital spending1882
replacement cost1884
operating costs1901
carrying cost1904
user cost1922
support cost1953
1839 Newburgh (N.Y.) Tel. 11 Apr. It was really amusing to look over the bill—there were rings, gold pencil-cases, gloves, carriages—travel expenses, servant hire.., more than a hundred items.
1875 W. W. Belknap Let. Secretary of War 2 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (44th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 110) (1876) XII. Those for the month of June, with which the present fiscal year terminates, inclusive of travel expenses to London, England, may be made here in advance.
2007 Independent 12 Oct. 6/2 His travel expenses this year included an £8,593 trip to San Francisco..for a global working group of auditors general.
travel folder n. a brochure or pamphlet advertising holidays, trips, etc., and describing the features and amenities of destinations and resorts; = travel brochure n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > plan or scheme of travel > travel brochure
travel brochure1908
travel folder1911
1911 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 13 Aug. 2 a/1 (headline) Panama Canal trip in ten hours. Government issues travel folder of great ditch between oceans.
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 488 A tour from a travel folder.
1980 D. Bloodworth Trapdoor xii. 68 The secluded Kahala Hilton with its sun-swept beach..could have been torn straight out of a travel folder.
travel industry n. the branch of commercial activity concerned with providing services and facilities for travellers and tourists.
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society > travel > [noun] > travelling for pleasure > as an industry or pursuit
tourism1910
travel industry1920
turismo1926
1920 Door County Advocate (Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin) 23 July Michigan last year in one area spent $15,000 developing the travel industry.
2012 Independent 14 Apr. (Traveller section) 3/4 Happily for the travel industry, nothing seems to dull our appetite for venturing abroad.
travel insurance n. insurance covering unforeseen financial losses relating to a person's travels, due to lost luggage, emergency medical care while abroad, etc.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > other types of insurance
reassurance1702
reinsurance1705
fire insurance1721
marine insurance1787
credit insurance1818
self-insurance1829
guarantee fund1848
industrial assurance1850
industrial insurance1853
fidelity guarantee1880
title insurance1882
open cover1884
rain check1884
co-insurance1889
franchise1895
health insurance1901
casualty insurance1902
travel insurance1912
fidelity insurance1930
medigap1966
fidelity bond1970
1912 Times 15 June 1/2 (advt.) Valuations for Burglary, Fire, or Travel Insurance of Jewels.
2003 Holiday Which? Spring 108/1 Travel insurance has never been more important, given the greater uncertainties associated with globetrotting and the escalating costs of emergency medical care worldwide.
travel-minded adj. inclined to travel; interested in or enthusiastic about travelling.
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1905 Ad Sense Jan. 48/2 Every question which occurs to the travel-minded citizen is anticipated; all information desired is given.
1962 John o' London's 1 Mar. 202/1 Everyone these days is travel-minded.
2016 Australian (Nexis) 26 Jan. (Arts section) 17 The travel-minded music-lover could make a very tempting itinerary based on the picturesque locations of operas.
travel-size adj. of a size suitable for travel, now esp. small, compact, or able to be easily carried while travelling; = travel-sized adj.
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1918 Philadelphia Inquirer 5 Aug. 11/5 (advt.) The travel-size trunk holds ten gowns or five suits.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Apr. b4/3 Consumers who spend a given amount are rewarded with a free assortment of travel-size products and a cosmetic bag.
travel-sized adj. = travel-size adj.
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1942 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-Times 13 June 9/3 There is now a travel-sized container of shaving lotion, cologne and hair dressing.
2015 D. Arnold Mosquitoland vii. 56 I pull my travel-sized makeup remover from my bag.
travel system n. a baby transport system consisting of an infant carry cot, a pushchair seat, and a baby car seat, which may all be used interchangeably in the same frame.
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1993 New Ross (County Wexford) Standard 13 May 32/1 For Sale. Absolutely immaculate Silver Cross travel system: Carry cot, pram, buggy and car seat, raincover, suncanopy, footmuff.
2011 Independent on Sunday 3 Apr. (New Review) 7/3 Want a ‘travel system’ that will transform from car seat, to pram, to pushchair?
travel-to-work area n. British an area whose residents generally commute to a larger town or city for work.
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1955 Hansard Commons 20 Apr. 326 Llanberis and Llandwrog are part of a larger travel-to-work area.
2009 K. Evans Learning, Work & Social Responsibility ii. 50 In a village, with a restricted travel-to-work area and an agricultural hinterland, the limitations of local job opportunities are obvious.
travel trailer n. North American a large well-equipped caravan.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > caravan
cart-house1603
caravan1805
house wagon1833
wagon1851
house trailer1885
caboose1912
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
Dormobile1952
caravette1953
trailer house1954
motor home1961
double-wide1966
static1980
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation
van1829
house wagon1833
living wagon1851
wagon1851
motor-van1898
motor caravan1909
van1922
trailer caravan1930
trailer1931
caravanette1934
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
recreational vehicle1949
van1952
trailer house1954
caravette1958
camper1960
pickup camper1960
motor home1961
caravan1962
cab-over1964
RV1967
manufactured home1976
micro-mini1989
1936 N.Y. Times 17 Oct. 34 c/4 (advt.) Travel trailer, new condition; sleeps 4; stove, dinette, refrigeration, sink.
2019 Hanover (Ont.) Post (Nexis) 5 Mar. a14 A witness had observed an unknown male trespassing on their residential property and inside a travel trailer.
travelway n. the part of a roadway upon which vehicles travel; a section of this.
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1815 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 11 Oct. There will be more travel-way on the turnpike part of this road, than on one of the same breadth made on the old plan..on this road wagons and carriages may with perfect safety..travel very near to the edge next to the summer road.
1998 Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 1 June a6/5 Speed is reduced..to assure safe negotiation of circular travelways.
travel writer n. a person who writes books, articles, etc., describing places he or she has visited and his or her experiences while travelling; cf. travel writing n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material
metaphrast1610
lasher1611
pastoralist1619
amorist1642
travel writer1711
party writer1715
Poor Richard1757
murdermonger1785
manners-painter1807
institutionalist1817
paroemiographer1823
nautical1831
nonsense-writera1835
recaster1841
serialist1845
snobographer1848
librettist1862
palindromist1872
fragmentist1874
text-man1900
scriptwriter1911
paradoxographer1917
absurdist1929
blogger1999
weblogger1999
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun] > action of writing > one who
voyage-writer1705
travel writer1711
tour-writer?1764
1711 in Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Index Traveller, or Travel-Writer in [literary] form.
1884 Manch. Guardian 23 Aug. 9/2 Denmark, for what reason we hardly know, is far from being beaten ground either with English novelists or English travel writers.
2016 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 15 June (Travel section) Contrary to popular belief, being a professional travel writer doesn't involve much relaxing by the pool.
travel writing n. a genre of writing in which authors describe places they have visited and their experiences while travelling; cf. travel writer n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun] > action of writing
tour-writing?1764
travel writing1776
1776 London Rev. Eng. & Foreign Lit. Aug. 122 The author..sets out with a very modest display of his abilities for the task of travel-writing.
1964 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 5 July 6/1 His immense comic sense animates his fiction and travel-writing.
2011 Church Times 22 July 18/2 I had improvised a half-decent career in travel writing which had taken me across the Pacific on a reed boat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

travelv.

Brit. /ˈtravl/, U.S. /ˈtræv(ə)l/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle travelled, (now chiefly U.S.) traveled;
Forms:

α. Middle English trauaillie, Middle English trauaily, Middle English trauale, Middle English trauaylle, Middle English trauile, Middle English travayle, Middle English trayuel, Middle English trayuell, Middle English–1500s traueil, Middle English–1500s traueyle, Middle English–1600s trauaile, Middle English–1600s trauaille, Middle English–1600s trauayle, Middle English–1600s travaile, Middle English 1600s–1700s (2000s– Indian English) travail, 1500s traualle, 1500s travaill, 1500s–1600s traueile, 1500s–1600s traueyll, 1500s–1600s travayl, 1600s trauail, 1600s traveile, 1600s traveyle; also Scottish pre-1700 trauail, pre-1700 travaill, pre-1700 traval, pre-1700 trawail, pre-1700 trawaile, pre-1700 trawal.

β. Middle English drawel, Middle English–1600s trauel, Middle English–1600s travell, Middle English– travel, 1500s–1600s trauell, 1600s–1700s (1900s English regional (northern)) travil; English regional (northern) 1800s thravel; also Scottish pre-1700 traivell, pre-1700 trawel, pre-1700 trawell, pre-1700 trayvel, pre-1700 trewell, 1800s trevle, 1800s– traivel, 1800s– trevel; Irish English 1800s trevil (northern), 1800s– thravel, 1800s– trevel (northern).

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: travail v.
Etymology: Originally a variant of travail v., now differentiated in form in the senses below. Compare slightly later travel n.Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French (northern: Picardy, Normandy) travailler (and variants; frequently from 13th cent. in the sense ‘to make a journey’, which is lacking in other varieties of continental French), and also the post-classical Latin specific sense ‘to travel, journey’ (attested from 13th cent. in British sources) of classical Latin labōrāre to work (see labour v.). In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix).
I. To make a journey, and related senses.
1.
a. intransitive. To make a journey, esp. of some length or to a distant or foreign place; to go from place to place. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.For use in reference to travelling through time, see sense 8a.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > go on a journey
ferec950
foundOE
sitheOE
to come upOE
comeOE
undernimc1275
to take or make (a, the, or one's) voyage1297
travelc1300
journeyc1330
to take one's waya1375
reisea1387
to fare a waya1400
voyage1477
wayfare1534
peregrinate1593
sojourn1608
to fare a voyage1609
to journey itc1680
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
stroke1823
trek1850
peruse1895
α.
c1300 St. Augustine (Laud) l. 61 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 25 For ȝe þus i-trauailede beoth fram so ferre londe..Ich eov nelle greui nouȝt.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 55 He was of grete elde & myght not trauaile.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. i. 1 I had longe tyme trauayled toward the holy Cyte of Jerusalem.
1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviii To preserue all that trauaile by lande or by water.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B7 Long time they thus together traueiled.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iii. 14 He supposes me trauaild to Poland. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 94 Why should we..quit the Road they have taken, if we may safely travail in it?
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Proeme sig. A3 Other Poet travailing in this plain High-way of Pastoral.
2014 Times of India (Nexis) 8 June There are 1,300 tatkal tickets in four trains originating from Lucknow for more than 2,000 passengers travailing to Mumbai or other places on the Lucknow-Mumbai route.
β. a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) l. 3259 (MED) So he traueld monethes thre, And no signe of hyr kowth he se.a1500 (a1400) Sir Cleges (Adv.) (1930) l. 16 To men þat traveld in londe of ware.1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L3 He is no body that hath not traueld.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 A thirsty train That long have travel'd through a desart plain. View more context for this quotation1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 34 An English man does not travel to see English men.1855 F. A. Paley Æschylus (1861) Pref. 28 They have..pointed out the path in which succeeding editors should travel.1976 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 21/1 Under the Eurocheque system the Briton travelling abroad can get up to the equivalent of £30 in cash from a Continental bank.1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl (1984) i. 15 Gabriel's wretchedly small coffin was returned at once for burial in Israel; his mother, too sick to travel, stayed in Bonn until her husband could accompany her.2018 M. Obama Becoming v. 53 He'd traveled around the Midwest on a summer rec-league team.
†b. intransitive. Of a Methodist preacher: to go round a circuit (circuit n. 6) preaching in different locations. Cf. travelling adj. 2. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > preach [verb (intransitive)] > as itinerant minister
itinerate1775
travel1789
1789 M. Moorhouse Defence (title page) He travelled as a preacher in connection with the Rev. Mr. Wesley, fourteen years; but was suddenly turned out of that connection with contempt, without a hearing.
1791 J. Hampson Mem. J. Wesley III. 84 Every preacher was considered, when admitted to travel, as a member of conference.
1885 Minutes Wesleyan Confer. 8 The above have travelled two years.
1927 Indiana Mag. of Hist. 23 1 He was licensed to exhort, September 10, 1811, and licensed to preach, July 10, 1813, by Rev. Moses Langdon. He commenced traveling the first of December, 1816.
c. intransitive. To go from place to place as a sales representative, working for a particular employer or dealing in a specified commodity. Cf. traveller n. 2c. Now somewhat dated.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > practise itinerant selling > as commercial traveller
travel1830
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell as commercial traveller
travel1898
travel1937
1830 C. Lamb Let. 22 Jan. (1935) III. 243 A rider in his youth, travelling for shops.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Samuel Titmarsh ii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 330/2 I've got a place—a tip-top place... My own horse and gig, and to travel in the West of England in oil and spermaceti.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 2 May 5/2 One lady ‘travels in balloons’, it was said, meaning not that she soared aloft, but that she vended toy-balloons to drapers and others.
1964 ‘J. Melville’ Murderers' Houses ii. 46 He travels for Associated Boxes. It's the big firm on the London Road.
2000 News of World (Nexis) 6 Feb. He was a lingerie salesman, so I can't be sued for saying he travelled in ladies' underwear!
2.
a. transitive. To journey through (a country, region, etc.); to journey along or follow (a road, path, etc.).
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground
runeOE
overcomeOE
meteOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
to pass over ——c1300
overpassc1325
tracec1381
travela1393
traverse?a1400
travelc1400
measure?a1425
walkc1450
go1483
journey1531
peragrate1542
trade1548
overspin1553
overtrace1573
tract1579
progress1587
invade1590
waste1590
wear1596
march1606
void1608
recovera1625
expatiate1627
lustrate1721
do1795
slip1817
cover1818
clear1823
track1823
itinerate1830
betravel1852
to roll off1867
society > occupation and work > working > [verb (transitive)] > be occupied with
work onOE
servec1330
lie1546
exercisea1616
travel1682
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 1205 (MED) So old he was that he ne mihte The world travaile.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1952 Þarfore, y am come to þys cyte, And haue trauayled many a iurne.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. iii. 659 Peter Belon..hath much haunted and trauayled the Ilande of Crete.
1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist xvii. 60 The Apostles that had the Gift of Tongues travelled all Nations.
1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 21 Our path..now became far less dangerous than that we had just travelled.
1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 57 §1 The senior judge..who actually travels that circuit.
2016 Daily Star (Nexis) 5 Oct. 3 Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack says travelling the world with his hellraiser dad is a ‘nightmare’.
b. transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts.
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1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job c. 516/1 Therfore let vs trauell the right way where hee calleth vs: and then shall wee bee blissed.
1612 T. James Treat. Corruption Script. (new ed.) To Rdr. Hauing now..fully trauelled this vast wilderness of Sin.
1779 Mirror No. 16. ⁋7 His brethren, travelling the same road, and subject to the like calamities with himself.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 156 Some..travel nature up To the sharp peak of her sublimest height.
1821 W. Scott Pirate II. v. 104 I have travelled books as well as seas in my day.
2017 K. Shamsie Home Fire i. 21 But then he might..lead them down a road she didn't want to travel.
3. transitive. To traverse or cover (a specified distance).
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground
runeOE
overcomeOE
meteOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
to pass over ——c1300
overpassc1325
tracec1381
travela1393
traverse?a1400
travelc1400
measure?a1425
walkc1450
go1483
journey1531
peragrate1542
trade1548
overspin1553
overtrace1573
tract1579
progress1587
invade1590
waste1590
wear1596
march1606
void1608
recovera1625
expatiate1627
lustrate1721
do1795
slip1817
cover1818
clear1823
track1823
itinerate1830
betravel1852
to roll off1867
society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > accomplish a distance in travelling
travelc1400
run1440
accomplish1550
make1564
gain1733
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. l. 10 I wolde trauaille..þis tree to se twenty hundreth myle.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 12 Having travelled five and forty dayes travail from Macharib.
1662 T. Blount Boscobel (new ed.) ii. 29 He pass'd through more dangers then he travailed miles.
1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. II. 70 Their number is..greater than that of the miles you travel.
2017 Church Times 16 June 7/4 Contrarily, a same-sex couple may be forced to travel miles to be married by an elected cleric.
4.
a. transitive. To cause (a horse or other animal) to journey; to lead, drive, or transport (livestock) from one place to another; also figurative. Also (less commonly) intransitive with passive meaning.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > herd
herdc1475
travel1576
pastor1587
drove1776
flog1793
tail1844
work1878
work1879
trail1906
1576 N. Malby Plaine & Easie Way to Remedie Horse (title page) You maye within .xxiiij. howres after the cure vsed, trauell your Horse, and iourney him at your pleasure, as if he had not bene foundered at all.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 309 In ancient time, if horsses were to be trauailed through snow, they made them bootes of sackcloth to weare in their iourney.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 170 His masters..having travelled him through forty pages of Cornelius Nepos, advanced him to the dignity of Cæsar's commentaries.
1851 Britannia (Hobart) 21 Apr. 3/4 Through this line of country upwards of 80,000 sheep are ‘travelling’ in search of grass.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 10/2 Graziers..stated that they prefer travelling their animals on foot distances of fifty, sixty, and seventy miles rather than exposing them to the cruelties exercised on them by the railway companies.
1960 R. S. Porteous Cattleman 86 ‘Got your waybill on you?’ ‘Yes. You didn't think I'd be mug enough to travel a mob without one, did you?’
1999 T. Pickeral Encycl. Horses & Ponies 59 It is a good idea to travel horses when they are wearing a poll guard, although this is not so necessary with small ponies.
b. transitive. Theatre. To take (costumes, props, performers, etc.) with one from venue to venue.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > tour (a performance)
tour1897
travel1909
1909 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 248 On one occasion we took a whole chorus from New York and travelled them with us for the tour.
1930 E. Wallace Lady of Ascot i. 15 She had sapphire rings and clips..of an incredible value, and she ‘travelled’ them, as they say in theatrical circles.
1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 123 The taller of these two guests travelled a broken concertina with him.
1978 C. Fletcher Nice One, Cyril xi. 110 We always hired electrical equipment, eventually buying certain items and travelling them with the scenery, so that the lighting of the shows became quite a feature.
c. transitive. Publishing. To take (books) from place to place in order to promote and sell them. Cf. sense 1c.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > practise itinerant selling
hawk1542
aginate1623
peddle1650
higgle1790
travel1937
doorstep1966
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell as commercial traveller
travel1898
travel1937
society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > sell specific things [verb (transitive)] > sell books in specific manner
remainder1829
travel1937
denet1962
1937 V. Woolf Let. 10 Feb. (1980) VI. 106 We're taking Tuesday off at Rodmell to travel our books in Sussex.
1977 B. Colloms Victorian Country Parsons xi. 219 [George Routledge] liked to travel his own books in the north country so that he could keep in touch with booksellers.
2004 D. McKitterick Hist. Cambr. Univ. Press III. vi. 146 His energetic regime of travelling his books over vast distances..offered exposure that Cambridge could not otherwise hope to attain.
5. transitive. to travel it: to make a journey, esp. on foot. Cf. sense 1a. Now Scottish and Irish English (northern).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)]
scritheOE
walka1200
fizgig1594
itinerate1600
to go round1636
to travel it1687
to go around1742
flitch1787
1687 England's Fair Garland 5 For leaving [L]ondon he now was put to't, Alas! for to travel it home on foot.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 167 To travel it through the Bourbonnois.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 108 Travel, v. to walk. ‘I travelled it every fut o' the way.’
1903 Speaker 19 Dec. 293/1 Laird, I just travel't it.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 364/1 Travel it, go on foot, walk.
6. intransitive. Of goods: to be transported from one place to another.
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1839 H. H. Price in S. C. Brees App. Railway Pract. 112 I am not aware of any Goods that travel by the Fly Waggons that could not go by the Railway, as they would be carried cheaper.
1952 Log July 11/2 (advt.) Your cargo travels safer when Acme Steel strapping protects it.
2019 Brentwood Gaz. (Nexis) 31 July (Features section) 19 95 per cent of our goods travel by sea.
7. colloquial.
a. intransitive. Of goods: to withstand transportation (well, badly, etc.). Later also of a person or (less commonly) animal: to withstand a journey (well, badly, etc.), esp. without suffering from motion sickness.
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society > travel > transport > [verb (intransitive)] > bear transportation
travel1852
1852 Florist, Fruitist, & Garden Misc. Dec. 271 They do not..make good plants for exhibition, as they travel badly.
1887 J. B. Sheppard Literæ Cantuar. (Rolls) I. Introd. 81 The monks knowing that so small a wine would not travel,..always sold it on the spot.
1984 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 3 May c2 Some dogs and cats travel well, but others become nervous, refuse to eat or suffer motion sickness.
2019 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Apr. The US President, who..doesn't travel well, plans to arrive a day early.
b. intransitive. figurative. To be received or understood well, badly, etc., in other countries, cultures, etc.
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1951 G. Brenan Lit. Spanish People viii. 175 A curious thing about Spanish literature is that it travels badly.
1988 R. W. Gregg in L. S. Finkelstein Politics in United Nations Syst. iv. 106 Two states of continental proportions have acquired superpower status, but subsequently discovered that their ideologies do not travel well.
2003 Independent on Sunday 4 May 25/3 Baseball, the American game, and softball, its variant for girls, have not travelled well.
8.
a. intransitive. In hypothetical or science fiction contexts: to be transported into the past or future; to engage in time travel. Cf. time-travel v.Originally as a metaphorical extension of sense 1a, and frequently with the temporal aspect specified by ‘through time’, ‘in time’, or a similar complement.
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)] > travel in time
travel1866
time-travel1937
1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 567 This charm of travelling would become perfect if we could travel in time as well as in space—if..we could sometimes take a fortnight in the fifteenth century, or, still more pleasant, a leap into the twenty-first.
1895 H. G. Wells Time Machine xiv. 139 So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate.
1956 K. E. Boulding Image (1961) 69 We cannot travel through time. An error in a history book, therefore, cannot be rectified by personal experience.
1997 rec.arts.drwho 27 Oct. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 13 Aug. 2019) This may be just another one of those timeline slips that Marty [in the Back to the Future films] has taken since he first started travelling.
2013 Radio Times 9 Nov. (South/West ed.) 22/2 If Professor Cox had his own Tardis, he would travel back to scientist Michael Faraday's Christmas lecture of 1860.
b. intransitive. figurative. To imagine the past or future as if travelling through time; to experience or envisage a re-creation of another time.
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1914 A. Mookerjee in Calcutta Rev. Jan. 1 To appreciate the history of the origin and growth of the Indian Museum, we must travel back to the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
1981 All Hands Jan. 6/2 Exiting the theatre, visitors travel back through the service history of the USS Intrepid, highlighted by aircraft which flew off its deck during service tours in the 1960s.
2010 K. Burton Live Life, love Work vi. 191 Just close your eyes as you travel into the future, experiencing your future self looking back at you today to tell your own story with detachment, compassion and joy.
II. Senses relating to movement more generally.
9.
a. intransitive. Of things: to move, proceed, or pass from one point or place to another; to go.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > move along [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things
travelc1300
passa1387
gad1582
toll18..
translate1876
c1300 St. Katherine (Laud) l. 24 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 92 Ȝwy ne bi-holde ȝe þe heiȝe temple..Of sonne and Mone and steorrene al-so, fram þe este to þe weste Þat trauaillieth [c1300 Harl. Wendeþ] and neuere werie ne beoth ne neuere ne habbeth reste?
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (1999) II. l. 7394 Somme [planets] haþ a ȝere and some two In his spere aboute to goo And some aboute to goo also Do but a monthe trauel þerto.
1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iii. 29 Sculpture..travell'd and came to Rome.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 400 Pains commencing in particular parts of the body, and travelling back towards the spine.
1846 Tudor Sisters I. vii. 147 The news had not yet travelled to the north country.
2016 Daily Mail (Nexis) 17 May The rain will travel eastwards and is set to hit the whole of England by tomorrow morning.
b. intransitive. Of energy, a wave, an oscillation, etc.: to pass or be transmitted through a physical medium; to propagate (propagate v. 6b).
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1722 J. Ozell tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Persian Lett. II. xciv. 85 I am satisfied there is none of our Doctors but would have been strangely puzzled..if he had been asked how many leagues Sound travels in an hour.
1828 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 3) I. 500 Sound travels in water about four times quicker, and in solids from ten to twenty times quicker, than in air.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 117 The earthquake-wave, as it travels along, causes the ground to rise and fall.
1937 Discovery Jan. 3/2 Radio signals can travel round the world and not be lost in space as would be the case if the ionosphere did not exist.
2017 New Scientist 14 Oct. 15/2 As the light travels, some of it scatters off the electrons in the gas.
c. intransitive. Of a device or a part of a mechanism: to move along the course in which, as a part of its operation, its motion is fixed, such as in a circuit or to and fro. Cf. travel n. 2b.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > of parts: operate [verb (intransitive)] > slide
travel1815
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xviii. 338 A large iron ring which travelled upon the bar we have described.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 326 The top travels, so as to bring the case over another groove at the back.
1958 Billboard 10 Feb. 18/3 A phonograph needle..travels thru a half-mile of grooves on each side of an LP record.
2015 M. N. A. Bin Ab Patar et al. in M. Gen et al. Industr. Engin., Managem. Sci. & Applic. 99 As the screw is rotated the nut travels back and forth along the length of the shaft.
10. intransitive. figurative and in figurative contexts, of an action or process described or imagined as movement.to travel out of the record: see record n.1 and adj. Phrases 5a.
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
passc1330
slidec1374
yern1377
to pass overa1382
wastec1385
waive1390
to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
to drive ona1470
slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
to wear out, forth1525
flit1574
to pass on1574
to run on1578
overhie1582
wear1597
overslip1607
spend1607
travel1609
to go bya1616
elapsea1644
to come round1650
efflux1660
to roll round1684
lapse1702
roll1731
to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
elabe1837
tick1937
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 148 Honour trauells in a straight so narrow: Where on but goes a brest.
1664 in G. Miege Relation of Three Embassies (1669) 423 His Royal Highness who hath travelled thorough all hearts.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 238 I must remind the learned gentleman, that he is travelling out of the case before us.
1874 G. J. Whyte-Melville Uncle John viii It seems that we are travelling out of the record.
1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. iii. 43 Western potters..have travelled further and further away from a natural conception of clay towards an ideal of over-refined mixtures which are aptly called pastes.
2007 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Jan. (People section) 86 Time travels slowly enough when you are in the air without some smarmy, grinning git in his clever little T-shirt walking up and down the aisle.
11. intransitive. colloquial. Originally: to go away or depart, esp. with speed; chiefly in imperative, expressing hostile or aggressive dismissal. Now more generally: to go or move quickly.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]
lakeOE
flyOE
runOE
scour13..
jace1393
hie1398
spina1400
fleetc1400
glentc1400
stripc1400
suea1450
carryc1450
speed1488
scud1532
streek1598
winga1616
to clip it1616
hackney1617
swifta1618
whirryc1630
dust1673
whew1684
race1702
stroke1735
cut1797
spank1807
skid1815
speela1818
crack1824
skimmer1824
slap1827
clip1832
skeet1838
marvel1841
lick1850
travel1850
rush1852
zip1852
sail1876
rabbit1887
move1906
high-tail1908
to ball the jack1914
buzz1914
shift1922
giddap1938
burn1942
hoosh1943
bomb1966
shred1977
1850 ‘N. Buntline’ G'hals of N.Y. 67 D'ye see that door?.. Well, put your trotters in motion, and travel. D'ye hear?
1884 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 16 119 ‘How he travels!’ Said of a dog, which was running very fast.
1894 Outing 24 473/1 The yachts were kept traveling from start to finish.
1911 G. Stratton-Porter Harvester v. 74 Betsey..wants to meander along the road with a loaded wagon... Betsey, you must travel!
1970 M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes xxi. 178 Mercy, the lorry's travelling. Foot down.
†12. intransitive. Of a deer: to move on while grazing. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > walk
gate1582
pad1871
travel1877
1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 88 If the deer is ‘travelling’, as it is called, one has to walk much faster.
13. intransitive. Basketball. To take more than the allowed number of steps (usually two) while holding the ball without dribbling it. Cf. travelling n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > play basketball [verb (intransitive)] > take two or more steps with ball
travel1916
1916 [implied in: G. T. Hepbron et al. Spalding's Official Basketball Guide 1916-17 40 A man must recognize traveling and call it as soon as it occurs. (at travelling n. 2)].
1932 W. L. Lambert Pract. Basketball iv. 68 If..the player develops the habit of gathering in the ball first, he will travel while executing pivots.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 17/3 Once when I felt certain a kid was going to travel (move his feet without bouncing the ball)..I blew the whistle..even before it registered in my brain that he had not done anything wrong.
2019 Dickinson (N. Dakota) Press (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Sports section) Kubas appeared to travel with the ball, but a foul was called underneath before the violation.

Phrases

P1.
†a. to travel the road: to practise highway robbery. Cf. road n. 8b. Obsolete.
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1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 54 There's a great deal of Address and good Manners in robbing a Lady, I am the most a Gentleman..that ever travell'd the Road.
b. to travel light: to travel with little baggage. Also figurative.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel with little luggage
to travel light1864
carpet-bag1872
1864 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 11 Feb. It is probable that Sherman will travel light, dash into Meridian, then turn south and reach the rear of Mobile.
1921 E. O'Neill Emperor Jones i. 166 I travels light when I wants to move fast.
1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xviii. 252 I just couldn't help making money, and I don't want that. I want to travel light.
1977 Time 19 Dec. 18/2 West German terrorists are especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light.
2010 TNT Mag. 12 Apr. 58/3 Ryanair is determined to incentivise passengers to travel light this summer by increasing checked-in baggage fees for July and August only.
P2. Proverbs and proverbial expressions.
a. he travels (the) fastest who travels alone: it is easier to achieve success when one is free of relationships and associations with others.A similar idea is found earlier in Thoreau (see quot. 1854).
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1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 78 The man who goes alone can start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.]
1888 R. Kipling Story of Gadsbys 101 Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.
2013 Greybull (Wyoming) Standard (Nexis) 3 Jan. Figures show that marriage makes men more successful... This explodes the fallacy that ‘he travels fastest who travels alone’.
b. it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive and variants: used to express the view that the process of doing something is more important than the result, or that the optimistic anticipation of something is more rewarding or enjoyable than that which is anticipated.
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1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 190 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
1918 D. H. Lawrence in Eng. Rev. Jan. 29 Love is strictly a travelling. ‘It is better to travel than to arrive,’ somebody has said.
1991 A. Carter Wise Children (1992) ii. 54 To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, as Uncle Perry used to say. I always preferred foreplay, too.
2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Dec. (Weekend section) 7 They say that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. For some, the lengthy journey towards Christmas is even more fun than the event itself.
c. bad news travels fast: see news n. Phrases 2a.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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