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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A lecture about travel, often accompanied by a film, a video, or slides.
  2. n. A narrated film or video about travel.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A description of someone's travels, given in the form of narrative, public lecture, slide show or motion picture.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a film or illustrated lecture on traveling

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

    Star of the Unborn (1946)

  • “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.”

    The Wall Street Journal: A Traveler's Way With Words

  • “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.”

    Report of Our Travels in Mexico

  • “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.”

    Observations on D-Land: I Steal a Euro, and Meet a Cool Cop

  • “The pictures look fabulous, and your travelogue is so inspiring - I need to get off this damn island every now and then.”

    Home Again, Home Again...

  • “Now, he's still writing an Internet column, but he's turned it into what he calls a travelogue about Iraq.”

    April 2004

  • “This form of political travelogue is one of the most accurate accounts written on the country.”

    Reading Tea Leaves

  • “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:)”

    India Travelogue, Day 2: Delhi

  • “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

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