Meaning of travel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
   intransitive
2. To pass or journey over or through; traverse: travel the roads of Europe.
3. To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
   intransitive
4. a mania for travel.
5. To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
   intransitive
6. a mania for wandering.
7. To travel throughout (a place).
   transitive
8. a mania for crossing bridges.
9. To force to journey.
   transitive
10. an abnormal fear of crossing bridges.
11. To labour; to travail.
    obsolete
12. an abnormal love of travel.
13. an abnormal fear or dislike of travel.
14. seasickness.
15. Obsolete, the act of wandering about.
    Obsolete,
16. travel from place to place, especially on foot and with the suggestion of a roundabout route.

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Examples

“John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.”

“He that feareth oblatration must not travel.”

“Then, when Moses had fulfilled the term, and was travelling with his housefolk, he saw in the distance a fire and said unto his housefolk: Bide ye (here). Lo! I see in the distance a fire; peradventure I shall bring you tidings thence, or a brand from the fire that ye may warm yourselves.”

“Dennis Anderson, 45, and Brandy Goldsbury, 46, were traveling from the beach in Lincoln City on the Oregon coast back to their home in Tigard around 8:30 p.m. July 13 when they spotted a black BMW 3 Series trying to pass them, according to reporting in The Oregonian.”

“(ballistics)”

“Soundwaves can travel through water.”

“The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.”

“I’ve travelled the world.”

“They shall not be travailed forth of their own franchises.”

“Necessity will make men fare hard, and work hard, and travel hard, go bare, and suffer much; yea it will even cut off a leg or arm to save their lives;”

“We labour sore, and travel hard, and much Study is a Weariness to our Flesh; and of making many Books there is no End.”

“Man holds in constant service bound The blustering winds and seas; Nor suns disdain to travel hard Their master, man, to please;”

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