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/trˈævəlɪŋ/ /trˈævlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Travel v. t.

1.

To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound."

2.

To force to journey. (R.) "They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises."

Travel v. i. (past & past part. traveled or travelled; pres. part. traveling or travelling)

1.

To labor; to travail. (Obsoles.)

2.

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

3.

To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

4.

To pass; to go; to move. "Time travels in divers paces with divers persons."

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Etymology of 'Traveling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Traveling" Quotes from Famous Books

... out Et Homo factus est in a torrent of living sound. At the elevation I saw a thin white flame rise from the uplifted chalice and disappear. It takes a beam of light one hundred and eight years to travel from Arcturus to the earth. Are we similar traveling beams, and is death merely our arrival on another planet which we illumine? Today I read aloud on the cliffs from the glories of ...

— The Forgotten Threshold • Arthur Middleton

... about my traveling all over the state as a blind sign-painter? Well, that started this way: One day we were in a small town, and a great crowd was watching us in breathless wonder and curiosity; and one of our party said; 'Riley, let ...

— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... of the last century none is so well beloved as Charles Lamb. Thirty years ago his Essays of Elia was a book which every one with any claim to culture had not only read, but read many times. It was the traveling companion and the familiar friend, the unfailing resource in periods of depression, the comforter in time of trouble. It touched many experiences of life, and it ranged from sunny, spontaneous humor to ...

— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch

... 30, 1763, it was "ordered that Robert Adam Gent^n be overseer of the Main street [now Fairfax] from the upper part of Mrs. Chews Lott to the lower part of her Lotts and that he make so much of the said Main street dry and fitt for traveling for Waggon & foot people by the first of Septem^r Next or pay for his failure twenty Shillings to the Trustees for the use of the Town ... And that W^m Ramsay Gent. in like manner and under the same penalty put the said main street in order from the upper part of his own ...

— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore

... everybody had left the camp, the chiefs followed the procession. When they thought it was noon they made a halt. They took their travois and saddles from the horses, and rested; then had their lunch. The chiefs then told Four Bear to get the camp in traveling shape again, and went on. Finally they came to the spot where the camping place was marked. They then took the medicine pipes and put them on a tripod, and the warriors came and sat around and smoked. Four Bear was then told to get the people settled, to tie up the buffalo ...

— The Vanishing Race • Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon

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