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Meaning of "travelling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRAVELLING

travelling  [ˈtrævəlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRAVELLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Travelling is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRAVELLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

travelling

Travel

Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.

Definition of travelling in the English dictionary

The definition of travelling in the dictionary is the activity of moving or journeying from one place to another, esp to places far from home.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRAVELLING


bevelling
ˈbevəlɪŋ
counselling
ˈkaʊnsəlɪŋ
cycling
ˈsaɪk əlɪŋ
devilling
ˈdevəlɪŋ
disabling
dɪˈseɪb əlɪŋ
enabling
ɪnˈeɪbəlɪŋ
hovelling
ˈhʌvəlɪŋ
juggling
ˈdʒʌɡəlɪŋ
labelling
ˈleɪbəlɪŋ
modeling
ˈmɒdəlɪŋ
modelling
ˈmɒdəlɪŋ
ravelling
ˈrævəlɪŋ
remodeling
ˌriːˈmɒdəlɪŋ
revelling
ˈrevəlɪŋ
signaling
ˈsɪɡnəlɪŋ
signalling
ˈsɪɡnəlɪŋ
silverling
ˈsɪlvəlɪŋ
snivelling
ˈsnɪvəlɪŋ
swivelling
ˈswɪvəlɪŋ
unravelling
ʌnˈrævəlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRAVELLING

travel-sickness pill
travel-stained
travel-weary
travelator
traveled
traveler´s check
travelled
traveller
traveller´s cheque
traveller´s joy
travelling clock
travelling expenses
travelling folk
travelling library
travelling people
travelling salesman
travelling wave
travelling-wave tube
travelog
travelogue

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRAVELLING

bestselling
billing
calling
chilling
compelling
controlling
direct selling
drilling
dwelling
falling
feeling
filling
hot-selling
installing
killing
rolling
scrolling
selling
spelling
telling
willing

Synonyms and antonyms of travelling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRAVELLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «travelling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of travelling

Translation of «travelling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRAVELLING

Find out the translation of travelling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of travelling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «travelling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

旅行
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

viaje
570 millions of speakers

English

travelling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यात्रा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سَفَر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

путешествие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

viagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্রমণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voyage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perjalanan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Reisen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

旅行
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

여행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lelungan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự du lịch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பயணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रवास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

seyahat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

viaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podróżowanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

подорожування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

călătorie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταξίδι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

reis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

resande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

reising
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of travelling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAVELLING»

The term «travelling» is very widely used and occupies the 6.722 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAVELLING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «travelling» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «travelling» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about travelling

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «TRAVELLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word travelling.
1
Barbara Amiel
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
2
Viswanathan Anand
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
3
Pamela Anderson
I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
4
Simon Armitage
Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.
5
Jean M. Auel
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
6
Richie Benaud
The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
7
Madhur Bhandarkar
I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
8
Andrea Bocelli
I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
9
Andrea Bocelli
It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
10
Rohan Bopanna
I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAVELLING»

Discover the use of travelling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to travelling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide
Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities ? necessary, exciting, serious ? must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods.
Mieke Bal, Sherry Marx-MacDonald, 2002
2
Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink
"The author concludes that the future of food and drink tourism lies in diversity and distinctiveness.
Priscilla Boniface, 2003
3
Travelling Facts: The Social Construction, Distribution, and ...
Acknowledging that facts are fallible and originate primarily in isolated laboratories and field sites, the volume includes discussions about how facts are reassembled into practical knowledge, how they translate locally, and what lessons ...
Caroline Baillie, Elizabeth Dunn, Yi Zheng, 2004
4
Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European ...
Through close readings of European women's Oriental travelogues from 1850-1950, including Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Jane Dieulafoy and Freya Stark, the book shows how the 'perfect woman' is rewritten in the Other space of the Orient.
Dúnlaith Bird, 2012
5
Travelling Waves in Nonlinear Diffusion-Convection Reaction
This book presents an overview of the occurence of travelling waves when these underlying phenomena can be mathematically modelled by a partial differential equation.
Brian H. Gilding, Robert Kersner, 2004
6
Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities
In this volume international researchers analyse the internal and external factors affecting educational provision to travelling, nomadic and indigenous groups.
Rosarii Griffin, 2014
7
Travelling Alone Together - Ruby Camp
Miriel Lenore uses this as the framework for her own explanations of the effects of gender, race, and generation on the individual and society. 'Ruby Camp': Crisp creates a radically new way of 'knowing' the East Gippsland bush.
Louise Crisp, Miriel Lenore, 1998
8
Variables in Travelling Abroad
Begging many citizens to researchers to ask the question what makes people travel? To many these are immigrants seeking a better life, driven by poverty and desperation from their homeland to those of greater wealth and opportunity.
Levi Leatherberry, 2011
9
Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman
This book tells the life history of Nan, an Irish Traveller & details how their culture was able to maintain a separate identity from the mainstream Irish population for at least 200 years.
Sharon Gmelch, 1991
10
Death of a Travelling Man
It's springtime in the Highlands but storms are brewing for Hamish Macbeth.
M.C. Beaton, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAVELLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term travelling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
World Travelling Selfie Model Arrested at Arizona Border with Cocaine
A woman known throughout the online world for her photos depicting a lavish jet-setting lifestyle is now facing drug trafficking charges after U.S. authorities ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
2
What you need to know before travelling to Greece
'If it's an EU airline, then the rights are the same as in the EU - even if the flight originates in Indonesia, if it's coming back to an EU country, travellers will have ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Travelling to Tunisia? Know your rights to a refund
If you are travelling independently you need to contact your airline. .... or alternative holiday from their travel provider, regardless of whether they are travelling on ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Advice to travellers planning holidays in Greece and Tunisia
Travellers should take enough cash with them to cover all costs, and not rely on ... Customers travelling to Tunisia in this period will be given the opportunity to ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Work on body language before travelling abroad
Jill Haney is the owner of Cincinnati-based JH Image Consulting and is certified with the London Image Institute. My son and I were having a conversation about ... «Cincinnati.com, Jun 15»
6
Let's All Have a Good Laugh at This LeBron James Travelling
Of course, this is nothing new. People have been making fun of LeBron's travelling for ages. But it's funnier when Phil Jackson points it out—you know, because ... «Total Pro Sports, Jun 15»
7
South Africa's new rules on travelling with children may be relaxed
The regulations designed to protect under-18s from traffickers appear to be too onerous and are in danger of putting off families from travelling to the country. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
8
Huw Edwards's Travelling Life
As a student I travelled extensively by rail through Europe and for me that was quite adventurous. But as for any notions of exploring rainforests or jungles or ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
9
Papua New Guinea bans Australians from travelling to Bougainville
Papua New Guinea has announced a ban on Australians travelling to Bougainville, ... from PNG's department of foreign affairs before travelling to the region. «The Guardian, May 15»
10
Travelling by train is s**t, says transport boss
Travelling by train is s**t where “Gestapo” staff target commuters and “fine ... railway stations – where long delays in the work has infuriated travellers and, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Travelling [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/travelling>. May 2024 ».
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