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All questions are readily and politely answered in Italian travel, and the servants of companies are required to be courteous to the public whereas, one is only too glad to receive a silent snub from such people at home II The first sun that rose after our arrival in Naples was mild and warm as a May sun, though we were quite in the heart of November.

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  1. intransitive verb To go from one place to another, as on a trip; journey.
  2. intransitive verb To go from place to place as a salesperson or agent.
  3. intransitive verb To be transmitted, as light or sound; move or pass.
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  • This travel has been the greatest school to me, and a school in which any person may invest; for in the United States and in the different States you will get lessons that you do not get at your home or in some other State. —  From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church. An Autobiography.
  • The pay-offs for the extra travel are the parks, temples and museums all within walking distance of this two-year-old hotel - and the fact you're likely to find more bargains in the local shops than you could ever hope to scoop in town. —  Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
  • Similarly, kulula travel is a logical brand extension into related areas such as hotels, car rentals and travel packages. —  Muti
  • But for Kaiser, a junior from Rapid City, S.D., simply the travel was the experience of a lifetime.
  • • Also hire range of people with broad experience and non-traditional talents such as expert in Italian travel, machine learning, etc. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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journey ·  trade ·  flight ·  communication ·  train ·  traffic ·  labor ·  ride ·  adventure ·  education ·  drive ·  transportation

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travel:   travelled ·  travelling ·  travels
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English travelen, alteration of travailen, to toil, from Old French travailler; see travail.

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  1. Formerly also travail (still retained archaically in one sense); from Middle English travel, travail, travayl, traveile, traveyle, from Old French travail, French travail, labor, toil, work, trouble, a brake, shackle, =Provencal trabalh, trebalh, trebail =Spanish trabajo =Portuguese trabalho =Italian travaglio (trabajo), an obstacle, impediment, Old Italian travaglio, pen for cattle, ox-stall, from Middle Latin *travaculum, *trabaculum (also, after Roman, trabale, travallum), a brake, shackle, impediment, from *travare,*trabare (later Provencal travar =F. en-traver), impede, hinder, shackle, fetter, from Latin trabs, a beam: see trave. Cf. embarrass, as connected with bar.
  2. Formerly also travail (still retained archaically in one sense); from Middle English travelen, travaillen, travayllen, traveylen, from Old French travailler, French travailler =Provencal trebalhar, trebailhar =Spanish trabajar, trabalhar =Portuguese trabalhar =Italian travagliare, labor, toil, etc.; from the noun.
 

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