travel tale
- noun
- /ˈtrævəl teɪl/
- In her latest blog post, she described a thrilling travel tale from her backpacking trip across South America.
- medieval travel tales
Examples
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And how is the text structured in relation to other medieval travel tales?
Academic text (1994) -
Columbus, like the writers of medieval travel tales, stops to create text when there is a marvel to describe.
Academic text (1994) -
I usually don't stray too far from writing strictly about DC-related events, stories, and topics, but occasionally travel tales just have to be included.
Blog text (1) -
Mr. Thurston notes that his reading habits were formed largely by the book collections of both his grandfathers, which probably explains some of the impetus for this time-travel tale.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Admiral attempted to solve his problem through a rhetoric employed by Marco Polo, a rhetoric employed by many writers of medieval travel tales, a rhetoric that continues as a powerful discourse in the letters of Latin America.
Academic text (1994) -
My grandmother loves to share her favorite travel tale about her journey to Europe.
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He wrote a captivating travel tale about his adventures hiking in the Himalayas.
Synonyms
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1.0
An account of events told to entertain or inform
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1.0
A story that tells about events, often imaginary, in books or by people
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3.9
A story that describes connected events
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2.3
A story with exciting, risky events about travel and danger
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3.1
A story about exciting, often dangerous journeys where people do brave things
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5.9
A film, talk, or book that shows someone's experiences while traveling
How Adventurous
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4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a story recounting travel experiences' is directly derivable from combining 'travel' (journeying) with 'tale' (a story); the compound follows a productive noun+noun composition pattern. This compositional logic is common across languages and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Travel tale is a simple compound of travel, meaning a journey, and tale, meaning a story. Imagine a traveler by a campfire telling stories about the places they saw, so travel tale means 'a story about someone's travels'.