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TRAVELLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of going from one place to another
Example:
he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("travelling" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "travelling"):
commutation; commuting (the travel of a commuter)
seafaring; water travel (travel by water)
junketing (taking an excursion for pleasure)
on the road; on tour (travelling about)
staging (travel by stagecoach)
leg; stage (a section or portion of a journey or course)
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
horseback riding; riding (travel by being carried on horseback)
driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)
crossing (traveling across)
wayfaring (traveling (especially on foot))
roving; vagabondage; wandering (travelling about without any clear destination)
traversal; traverse (travel across)
peregrination (traveling or wandering around)
circumnavigation (traveling around something (by ship or plane))
walk (the act of walking somewhere)
Derivation:
travel (undertake a journey or trip)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb travel
Context examples:
Where there is fortune to make the expenses of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
One of them is never to allow my batterie de toilette out of my sight when I am travelling.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You were travelling in the States?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But she only snarled at him, and he walked out alone into the bright sunshine to find the snow-surface soft under foot and the travelling difficult.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Twoscore of manuscripts were travelling the endless round of the magazines.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The light from this object began travelling to us when the Universe was about a tenth of its current age.
(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)
Would Jane but go, means were to be found, servants sent, friends contrived—no travelling difficulty allowed to exist; but still she had declined it!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
At ten o'clock, she trusted, or at least not much later her mother would be relieved from the dreadful suspense in which she must now be travelling towards them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
We will suppose that he was travelling back to Woolwich when he was killed and thrown out of the compartment.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They might return to Mansfield when they chose; travelling could be no difficulty to them, and she could not comprehend how both could still keep away.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
