Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to travel
Participle: traveled; travelled
Gerund: traveling; travelling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | travel |
| you | travel |
| he;she;it | travels |
| we | travel |
| you | travel |
| they | travel |
Perfect
| I | have traveled; travelled |
| you | have traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | has traveled; travelled |
| we | have traveled; travelled |
| you | have traveled; travelled |
| they | have traveled; travelled |
Past
| I | traveled; travelled |
| you | traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | traveled; travelled |
| we | traveled; travelled |
| you | traveled; travelled |
| they | traveled; travelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had traveled; travelled |
| you | had traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | had traveled; travelled |
| we | had traveled; travelled |
| you | had traveled; travelled |
| they | had traveled; travelled |
Future
| I | will travel |
| you | will travel |
| he;she;it | will travel |
| we | will travel |
| you | will travel |
| they | will travel |
Future Perfect
| I | will have traveled; travelled |
| you | will have traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | will have traveled; travelled |
| we | will have traveled; travelled |
| you | will have traveled; travelled |
| they | will have traveled; travelled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | travel |
| you | travel |
| he;she;it | travel |
| we | travel |
| you | travel |
| they | travel |
Perfect
| I | have traveled; travelled |
| you | have traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | have traveled; travelled |
| we | have traveled; travelled |
| you | have traveled; travelled |
| they | have traveled; travelled |
Imperfect
| I | traveled; travelled |
| you | traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | traveled; travelled |
| we | traveled; travelled |
| you | traveled; travelled |
| they | traveled; travelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had traveled; travelled |
| you | had traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | had traveled; travelled |
| we | had traveled; travelled |
| you | had traveled; travelled |
| they | had traveled; travelled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would travel |
| you | would travel |
| he;she;it | would travel |
| we | would travel |
| you | would travel |
| they | would travel |
Perfect
| I | would have traveled; travelled |
| you | would have traveled; travelled |
| he;she;it | would have traveled; travelled |
| we | would have traveled; travelled |
| you | would have traveled; travelled |
| they | would have traveled; travelled |
Imperative
| you | travel |
| we | Let's travel |
| you | travel |
Verbs conjugated like 'travel'
annul,
bevel,
cancel,
carol,
cavil,
channel,
chisel,
compel,
control,
counsel,
court-martial,
cudgel,
decontrol,
dial,
dispel,
dowel,
drivel,
duel,
empanel,
enamel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'travel'
gravel,
ravel,
travell,
avel,
betravel,
brave,
braven,
chavel,
cotravel,
crave,
Additional Information
The forms with ortographic changes are used in British English, in American English the doubling of the consonant is usually omitted.
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1375, "to journey," from
travailen (1300) "to make a journey," originally "to toil, labor" (see travail). The semantic development may have been via the notion of "go on a difficult journey," but it may also reflect the difficulty of going anywhere in the Middle Ages. Replaced O.E.
faran.
Travels "accounts of journeys" is recorded from 1591.
Traveled "experienced in travel" is from 1413.
Traveling salesman is attested from 1885.
2. PIE word
3. *tréyes
4. From Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from Middle Scots travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublets travail and travois.
5. Compare typologically routine << Latin rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit).
6. Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare. See: Old French '
travailler', Old English '
faran'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] of entertainment for the rest of the ride in watching the effects of the wood fire, which had been invisible in the morning but were now brought out in full relief by the darkness: for we were travelling in a whirlwind of bright sparks, which showered about us like a storm of fiery snow.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Cause, ” said Sam, “ I'd rather be ’ clined to ’ magine that Lizy ’ d take de dirt road, bein ’ it's the least travelled. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] recollection of Hartford. It is a lovely place, and I had many friends there, whom I can never remember with indifference. We left it with no little regret on the evening of Friday the 11th, and travelled that night by railroad to New Haven. Upon the way, the guard and I were formally introduced to each other (as we usually were on such occasions ), and exchanged a variety of small-talk. We reached [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] could our readers fancy a bull-dog come unto man's estate, and walking about in a hat and coat, they would have no unapt idea of the general style and effect of his physique. He was accompanied by a travelling companion, in many respects an exact contrast to himself. He was short and slender, lithe and catlike in his motions, and had a peering, mousing expression about his keen black eyes, with which [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and waving flags. Crossing from among them to the opposite shore, were steam ferry-boats laden with people, coaches, horses, waggons, baskets, boxes: crossed and recrossed by other ferry-boats: all travelling to and fro: and never idle. Stately among these restless Insects, were two or three large ships, moving with slow majestic pace, as creatures of a prouder kind, disdainful of their puny journeys, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The streets and shops are lighted now; and as the eye travels down the long thoroughfare, dotted with bright jets of gas, it is reminded of Oxford Street, or Piccadilly. Here and there a flight of broad stone cellar-steps appears, and a painted lamp directs [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In the course of this day 's journey, as on subsequent occasions, we encountered some Englishmen (small farmers, perhaps, or country publicans at home ) who were settled in America, and were travelling on their own affairs. Of all grades and kinds of men that jostle one in the public conveyances of the States, these are often the most intolerable and the most insufferable companions. United to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The advice I received in most quarters when I began to yield to my desire of travelling towards that point of the compass was, according to custom, sufficiently cheerless: my companion being threatened with more perils, dangers, and discomforts, than I can remember or would catalogue [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of skin, but mind—which meets the stranger 's eye at every turn; the brutalizing and blotting out of all fairer characters traced by Nature 's hand; immeasurably outdo his worst belief. That travelled creation of the great satirist 's brain, who fresh from living among horses, peered from a high casement down upon his own kind with trembling horror, was scarcely more repelled and daunted by the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ground reeked and smoked, after the heavy fall of rain, and the croaking of the frogs (whose noise in these parts is almost incredible ) sounded as though a million of fairy teams with bells were travelling through the air, and keeping pace with us. The night was cloudy yet, but moonlight too: and when we crossed the Susquehanna river—over which there is an extraordinary wooden bridge with two [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)