travel
/ˈtɹævəl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office."
- "Snakes do not travel well."
- "I still travel to work by bus."
- "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."
- "And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes"
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes 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 the doublets travail and travois. Compare typologically routine << Latin rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit). Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.
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Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
travels (present, singular)
traveling (US, participle)
travelling (UK, participle)
traveled (US, participle)
traveled (US, past)
travelled (UK, participle)
travelled (UK, past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
travelled (first person, past)
traveled (US, first person)
travellest (archaic, present)