Definition of travel

"travel" in the noun sense

1. travel, traveling, travelling

the act of going from one place to another

"he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"

2. change of location, travel

a movement through space that changes the location of something

3. locomotion, travel

self-propelled movement

"travel" in the verb sense

1. travel, go, move, locomote

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"

2. travel, journey

undertake a journey or trip

3. travel, trip, jaunt

make a trip for pleasure

4. travel, journey

travel upon or across

"travel the oceans"

5. travel

undergo transportation as in a vehicle

"We travelled North on Rte. 508"

6. travel, move around

travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

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Quotations for travel

Travel teaches toleration. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Secrets travel fast in Paris. [ Napoleon ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse. [ Proverb ]

A gentleman ought to travel abroad but dwell at home. [ Proverb ]

Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel. [ Yogi Berra ]

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees. [ Tennyson ]

He who has a tongue in his head can travel all the world over. [ Italian Proverb ]

All our days travel toward death, and the last one reaches it. [ Montaigne ]

Rivers are roads which travel, and which carry us whither we wish to go. [ Pascal ]

Travel improves superior wine and spoils the poor; it is the same with the brain.

Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience. [ Bacon ]

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. [ James A. Garfield ]

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. [ Tuckerman ]

If a woman says to you, I will never see you again! hope; but, if she says, Notwithstanding, I shall always see you with pleasure - travel.

Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance. [ Jeremy Collier ]

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down. [ H. K. White ]

Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]

The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

People travel the world over to visit untouched places of natural beauty, yet modern gardens pay little heed to the simplicity and beauty of these environments... those special places we all must preserve and protect, each in his own way, before they are lost forever. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, November 2001 Application Form. Dare to Be Wild movie ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]

travel in Scrabble®

The word travel is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters travel:

TRAVEL
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word travel

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In travel

TRAVEL
(39)
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(36)
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(33)
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travel in Words With Friends™

The word travel is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters travel:

TRAVEL
(75)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word travel

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In travel

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Words within the letters of travel

2 letter words in travel (6 words)

3 letter words in travel (18 words)

5 letter words in travel (6 words)

6 letter words in travel (1 word)

travel + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving travel

Shorter words in travel

el ravel

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Longer words containing travel

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