travel
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,107 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,434 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically also: go, move, locomote How fast does your new car go?We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus
- undertake a journey or trip also: journey
- make a trip for pleasure also: trip, jaunt
- travel upon or across also: journey travel the oceans
- undergo transportation as in a vehicle We travelled North on Rte. 508
- travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge also: move around
noun
- the act of going from one place to another also: traveling, travelling he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel
- a movement through space that changes the location of something also: change of location
travel in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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We did not travel in the same carriage going to London.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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Books of travel and adventure continued to prevail for a long while.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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I will travel and look a bit about me in the world.’
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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The opera, books, travel, a few good friends--those that Morgan allowed her to keep--these filled her days.
The Bad Man: A Novel · Charles Hanson Towne · Chapter 1
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Then you will be glad to have it travel on and on and on, and will never want to call it back.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1