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travel
English
Alternative forms
- travail (obsolete)
- travell (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See travail.
Displaced native Middle English faren (“to travel, fare”) (from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”)), Middle English lithen (“to go, travel”) (from Old English l?þan (“to go, travel”)), Middle English feren (“to go, travel”) (from Old English f?ran (“to go, travel”)), Middle English ?ewalken, iwalken (“to walk about, travel”) (from Old English ?ewealcan (“to go, traverse”)), Middle English swinken (“to work, travel”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, work at”)). More at fare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?æv?l/
- Rhymes: -æv?l
Verb
travel (third-person singular simple present travels, present participle travelling or (US) traveling, simple past and past participle travelled or (US) traveled)
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
Conjugation
Synonyms
- fare, journey, reyse
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
travel (countable and uncountable, plural travels)
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
Usage notes
- Used attributively to describe things that have been created or modified for use during a journey.
Synonyms
- (act of travelling): journey, passage, tour, trip, voyage
- (activity or traffic along a route or through a given point): traffic
- (working motion of a piece of machinery): stroke, movement, progression
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- travel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- travel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- travel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- retval, varlet
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlere, indefinite superlative travlest, definite superlative travleste)
- busy
References
- “travel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Possibly from French travail; compare with Danish travl.
Adjective
travel (neuter singular travelt, definite singular and plural travle, comparative travlare, indefinite superlative travlast, definite superlative travlaste)
- busy
References
- “travel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From traväl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?træ????/
Noun
travel
- A jumble of tracks, footprints.
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straphanger
English
Etymology
strap +? hanger
Noun
straphanger (plural straphangers)
- A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).
- 1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, p. 8,[1]
- For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
- 2008, William Neuman, "$1 Billion Later, Subway Elevators Still Fail," New York Times, 19 May (retrieved 16 Nov. 2009):
- The number of elevators has grown significantly since 1990, when the Americans With Disabilities Act set off a transformation of the aging transit system. For the disabled, the changes promised to open doors, while thousands of other straphangers—parents with strollers, older travelers—expected a small dose of convenience in a wearying city.
- 1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, p. 8,[1]
Related terms
- straphang
References
- straphanger at OneLook Dictionary Search
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