travelling Definition

travel
verb travelled, travelling, traveled, traveling

tr & intr
1. To go from place to place; to journey, especially abroad or far from home; to journey through, across or over (a region, country, etc).

Example: travelled the world
Example: travelled through France
Thesaurus: journey, roam, tour, voyage, trek, wander, traverse, commute, go.
2. To journey across (a stated distance).
intr
3. To be capable of withstanding a journey, especially a long one.

Example: not a wine that travels well
intr
4. To journey from place to place as a sales representative.
intr
5. To move.

Example: Light travels in a straight line
intr
6. To move or pass deliberately, systematically, steadily, etc.

Example: Her eyes travelled over the horizon
intr
7. Said especially of machinery: to move along a fixed course.
intr
8. colloq
To move quickly.
Example: You must have been really travelling to have got here so quickly

noun

1. An act or process of travelling.
2. A journey or tour, especially abroad.

Form: travels (usually)
3. The range, distance, speed, etc of the motion of a machine or a machine part.

Derivative: travelling
adj

Example: travelling circus
Thesaurus: itinerant, wandering, roving, vagrant, migrant, nomadic, touring, cruising, commuting, moving.

Etymology: 14c: from travail.

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