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say it: TRAV-uhl
travel is a verb and noun meaning "change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically". It carries 9 recorded senses.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
“How fast does your new car go?”
“We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus”
“The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect”
“The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell”
“news travelled fast”
travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
the act of going from one place to another
“he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel”
a movement through space that changes the location of something
self-propelled movement
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for travel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.