Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lecture about travel, often accompanied by a film, a video, or slides.
- n. A narrated film or video about travel.
Wiktionary
- n. A description of someone's travels, given in the form of narrative, public lecture, slide show or motion picture.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a film or illustrated lecture on traveling
Etymologies
- Supposedly a blend of travel and monologue. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The plot is transparently thin; our hero, named F.W. and writing in the first person throughout, delivers what he calls a travelogue through time to the Eleventh Cosmic Capital Year of Virgo, an unspecified time 100,000 years or so in the future.”
“In editorial offices these days, the term "travelogue" is shorthand for "boring," designating flowery descriptions of places that impede the narrative thrust of a piece of writing -- something to be cut.”
“Home my "travelogue" is helpful to others considering spending some time in Mexico and I would be happy to respond to other questions from my experience.”
“There are so many suave transcontinental know-it-alls out there that this honest, self deprecating travelogue is more refreshing than a 'merican soda cup full of ICE.”
“The pictures look fabulous, and your travelogue is so inspiring - I need to get off this damn island every now and then.”
“Now, he's still writing an Internet column, but he's turned it into what he calls a travelogue about Iraq.”
“This form of political travelogue is one of the most accurate accounts written on the country.”
“Your travelogue is interesting - came here through desipundit, and am finding all the classic observations foreigners would make in India - cows, poor people, dust and the likes hehe:)”
“Before September 30, the teams must post an 800-word travelogue and a three- to five-minute film on the web site.”
Blogger-writer travel team wanted for Taiwan Award: NT 1 million!
“He became a famous stage presenter, who, from the late nineteenth century until the 1950's, inherited a showman's tradition from previous travel lecturers and became synonymous with the new word, "travelogue," which he favored to stimulate vicarious interest in his art.”
The Huffington Post: F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: Striking Images Reclaim the Urban Memory
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘travelogue’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Addenda to the 1923 Printing of Webst...
Many of these words first came into common usage during World War I, and reflect not only the technological and scientific leaps of the early part of the 20th century, but the new experience of glo...
abri, ace, acidosis, airdrome, air fleet, airplane, air raid, airworthy, altimeter, anaphylaxis, anociassociation, anti-aircraft and 292 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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unusual
zoonotic, escarpment, rampart, bulwark, booby-traps, booby, lipid, synapse, axon, ressentiment, solipsism, panacea and 71 more...
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bbagins's Words
prowess, melancholy, serendipity, canonical, wretch, surmise, satirical, petrify, enunciate, oxymoron, oxymoron, dolt and 87 more...
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mmmarilyn's Words
bibliophile, sangfroid, menace, susurrus, raconteur, odyssey, bedraggled, rapacious, slattern, merkin, moxie, travelogue and 15 more...
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travel
for writing travelogues
traverse, delve, explore, discover, serene, bliss, heaven, haven, hotspot, nestled, secluded, transcend and 67 more...
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