travel

travel is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To labor; to travail. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To labor; to travail.
2. intransitive verb. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
3. intransitive verb. 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. intransitive verb. To pass; to go; to move.
5. transitive verb. To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.
6. transitive verb. To force to journey.
7. noun. The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
8. noun. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
9. noun. The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
10. noun. Labor; parturition; travail.
11. noun. self-propelled movement

    Synonyms: locomotion

12. noun. the act of going from one place to another

    "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"

    Synonyms: traveling, travelling

13. noun. a movement through space that changes the location of something
14. verb. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

    "How fast does your new car go?"

    "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"

    Synonyms: go, locomote, move

15. verb. undergo transportation as in a vehicle

    "We travelled North on Rte. 508"

16. verb. make a trip for pleasure

    Synonyms: jaunt, trip

17. verb. undertake a journey or trip

    Synonyms: journey

18. verb. travel upon or across

    "travel the oceans"

    Synonyms: journey

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

Synonyms

locomotion, traveling, travelling, go, locomote, move, jaunt, trip, journey

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in travel:

varlet

Common word forms

travels, traveled, traveler, traveling, travelled, traveller, travelable, travelling

Words from these letters

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