transcription, транскрипция: [ træv(ə)l ]
( travels, travelling, travelled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'traveling', 'traveled'
1.
If you travel , you go from one place to another, often to a place that is far away.
You had better travel to Helsinki tomorrow...
I’ve been traveling all day...
Students often travel hundreds of miles to get here...
I had been travelling at 150 kilometres an hour...
He was a charming travelling companion.
VERB : V prep / adv , V , V amount / n , V at amount , V-ing
• trav‧el‧ling
I love travelling...
N-UNCOUNT
2.
Travel is the activity of travelling.
He detested air travel.
...a writer of travel books.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you travel the world, the country, or the area, you go to many different places in the world or in a particular country or area.
Dr Ryan travelled the world gathering material for his book...
VERB : V n
4.
When light or sound from one place reaches another, you say that it travels to the other place.
When sound travels through water, strange things can happen...
Light travels at around 300,000,000 metres per second.
VERB : V prep / adv , V at amount
5.
When news becomes known by people in different places, you can say that it travels to them.
News of his work traveled all the way to Asia...
VERB : V adv / prep
6.
Someone’s travels are the journeys that they make to places a long way from their home.
He also collects things for the house on his travels abroad.
N-PLURAL : with poss , usu poss N
7.
see also travelling , much-travelled , well-travelled
8.
If you travel light , you travel without taking much luggage.
PHRASE : V inflects