–noun

1.	a state of the United States comprising the N Pacific islands of Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Niihau, and Oahu: a U.S. territory 1900–59; admitted to the Union 1959. 965,000; 6424 sq. mi. (16,715 sq. km). Capital: Honolulu. Abbreviation: HI (for use with zip code), Haw.

2.	the largest island of Hawaii, in the SE part. 63,468; 4021 sq. mi. (10,415 sq. km).

–verb (used without object)

1.	to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.

2.	to move or go from one place or point to another.

3.	to proceed or advance in any way.

4.	to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.

5.	to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.

6.	Informal. to move with speed.

7.	to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.

8.	Basketball. walk (def. 9).

9.	to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

–verb (used with object)

10.	to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.

11.	to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.

12.	to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.

–noun

13.	the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets.

14.	travels, a. journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels. b. journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels. c. such an account or work.

15.	the coming and going of persons 3e8 or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.

16.	Machinery. a. the complete movement of a moving part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke. b. length of stroke.

17.	movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.

–adjective

18.	used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.