Definition of: travel

(trav′əl) v. trav·eled or ·elled, trav·el·ing or ·el·ling v.i.
1. To go from one place to another or from place to place; make a journey or tour.
2. To proceed; advance.
3. To go about from place to place as a traveling salesman.
4. U.S. Colloq. To move with speed.
5. To pass or be transmitted, as light, sound, etc.
6. Mech. To move in a fixed path, as part of a mechanism.
—v.t.
7. To move or journey across or through; traverse.
—noun
1. The act of traveling; a journeying: chiefly in the plural.
2. plural A narration of things experienced or observed in traveling.
3. A moving or progress of any kind.
4. Mech. Movement or length of stroke.
5. The passage of people and vehicles to, over, or past a certain place.
6. Tourists, collectively.
7. Distance traveled; mileage. See synonyms under JOURNEY. [Var. of TRAVAIL¹]
—trav′el·ing or ·el·ling adjective & noun