travelling

/ˈtravəlɪŋ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈtravəlɪŋ/

travelling

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

tra - vel - ling -> travelling

Myanmar meaning

(v[ing]) ခရီးသွားခြင်း။ (US) traveling (Brit) travelling

Full entry

travel /'trævl/ v (-ll-; US -l- )

၁။ (က) ခရီးထွက်သည်။ ခရီးသွား သည်။ I love travelling. ❍ We had been travelling for over a week. ❍ travel to work/ across Africa ❍ travel abroad ❍ We travelled down (to London) by car. (ခ) သွားသည်။ လှည့်သည်။ ပတ်သည်။ He's travelled the whole world. ❍ travel forty miles to work each day.
၂။ ရွေ့လျားသည်။ သွားသည်။ ပြေးသည်။ ကူးသည်။ Light travels faster than sound. ❍ News travels quickly these days. ❍ The billiard ball travelled across the table. ❍ (fig ) The author travels back (in time) to his youth.
၃။ ဝေးဝေးလံလံ သယ်ဆောင်နိုင်သည်။ Some wines do not travel well.
၄။ (infml ) ပြေးသည်။ At top speed it can really travel.
n
၁။ [U] ခရီး။ rail/ air/ space travel ❍ foreign travel ❍ Travel in the mountains can be slow and dangerous. ❍ travel books/ writers ❍ travel arrangements/ insurance.
၂။ travels [pl] (ပင်လယ်ရပ်ခြား) ခရီး။ She wrote an account of her travels in China. ❍ I met many interesting people on my travels. ❍ JOURNEY
၃။ [U](စက်အစိတ်အပိုင်း) ရွေ့လျားနိုင်စွမ်းပမာဏ။ There's too much travel on the brake, it needs tightening.
adj (also esp US travelling ) ခရီးဆောင်။ ခရီး။ a travel bag/ rug/ cot.
❏ travel agency n ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းဌာန။
❏ travel agent n ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းကိုယ်စားလှယ်။ I arranged my trip through my local travel agent.
❏ travelled (US traveled ) adj
၁။ ခရီးအရောက် အပေါက် (များသော စသည်)။ a well-/ much-/ widely- travelled journalist.
၂။ လမ်း…ကျသော။ This route was once much travelled.
❏ traveller (US traveler ) /'trævǝlǝ(r)/ n
၁။ ခရီးသွား။ ခရီးသည်။ the famous traveller, writer and broadcaster ❍ Travellers can expect further disruption on the railways today. ❍ special fares for frequent/ business travellers.
၂။ (esp Brit ) အိုးအိမ် အတည်တကျမရှိသူ။ ခြေသလုံးအိမ်တိုင်။ လူလေလူလွင့်။ New Age Travellers.
၃။ နယ်လှည့် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်။ See also COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER
❏ traveller's cheque (US traveler's check ) n ခရီးသွား ချက်လက်မှတ်။
❏ travelling (US traveling ) adj
၁။ ခရီးသွား။ လှည့်လည် (ပြသ၊ ဖျော်ဖြေ) သော။ a travelling circus/ musician/ exhibition ❍ Roadworks inconvenience the travelling public.
၂။ (esp US ) = TRAVEL adj— n [U]: Travelling in the mountains can be dangerous at this time of year. ❍ travelling expenses ❍ my travelling companions.
❏ travelling salesman n = COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER
❏ travelogue (US also travelog ) /'trævǝlɒg;US -lↄ:g/ n ခရီးသွားမှတ်တမ်း။

More examples

I wish I didn’t have to travel so much.
Matt spends much of his time travelling abroad.
He is very well-travelled (=he has travelled a lot).
[travel to] : Joe recently travelled to Australia on business.
[travel in/around] : We’ll be spending two weeks travelling around Spain.
[travel the world/country etc] : Ben’s dream is to travel the world.
Did you have to travel far to get here?
[travel by car/bus/train etc] : I usually travel by bus.
[travel on foot/horseback] : The refugees had travelled on foot across the mountains.
Let’s travel back in time to the 19th century.
Most people are prepared to travel reasonable distances to work.
We travelled 300 miles on Saturday.
The news travelled quickly.
Rumours travel fast.
[travel at 50 miles/100 kilometres etc per hour] : The car was travelling at about 80 miles per hour.
This car can really travel!
Sound travels more slowly than light.
His gaze travelled around the room.

Synonyms

journey, tour, take a trip, voyage, trek, go, pass through, move, adventure, biking, carry, collapsible, commutation, cover, cover ground, cross, cruise, cruising, drive, driving, excursion, expedition, explore, fly, flying, foldaway, get through, globe-trotting, go abroad, go camping, go into orbit, go riding, holiday business, hop, jaunt, jet, junket, knock around, leisure industry, lightweight, make a journey, make one's way, migrate, mobile, motor, movement, navigation, overnight, passage, peregrination, portable, proceed, progress, ramble, ride, riding, roam, rove, sail, sailing, scour, seafaring, service sector, set forth, set out, sightsee, sightseeing, swing, take a boat, take a plane, take a train, touring, tourism, transit, transmit, transportable, traverse, trekking, trip, vacation, vacation industry, visit, voyaging, walk, wander, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring, weekend, wend

Antonyms

back up, discourage, dissuade, halt, ignore, remain, stay, stop