Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Travers, P(amela) L. 1899-1996. Australian-born British writer of children's stories, including Mary Poppins (1934).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the manège, a sidewise movement of the horse with the forehand a little in advance of the croup.
- An obsolete variant of traverse.
Wiktionary
- n. A surname.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. obsolete Across; athwart.
Etymologies
- From Norman French traverser "to cross", an occupational name for a toll collector. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In this clip, Travers is showing his boss hidden clues he's discovered in the crossword puzzles of various newspapers.”
“Travers is an intelligence analyst at the heart of the television series "Rubicon.”
“Mary Travers is now gone, finally succumbing to leukemia at age 72.”
“When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts.”
“Tony Travers from the LSE was on the Today programme this morning saying that Boris Johnson's problems with his advisers and deputies is in part caused by the Mayoral system.”
“And more than 30 political insiders – ranging from Hazel Blears MP to Tony Travers from the LSE – have been signed up as unpaid bloggers.”
“The name Travers had rarely, if ever, been spoken in Priscilla's presence.”
“Tony Travers is from Britain's London School of Economics.”
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“More than two decades later, The Wraith, though forever without a wet ’stache lick from Peter Travers, is cult-minted for being memorable-enough ’80s-ploitation.”
“Sex was always a give and take for Justin Travers.”
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