travail

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tɹəˈveɪl/

Noun

literary countable obsolete alt-of alternative

(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. / Specifically, the labor of childbirth. / (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).

Japanese Meaning

苦労、苦痛を伴う過剰な労働や努力、苦しみ、困難 / 分娩時の陣痛、労働 / (古語) 労働行為、働く行為

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After months of travail, she finally completed the manuscript.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

数か月にわたる苦闘の末、彼女はついに原稿を完成させた。

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Sense（1）

(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.

Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […]

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Sense（2）

Specifically, the labor of childbirth.

The lady shrieks and, well-a-near,

Does fall in travail with her fear.

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Sense（3）

(obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).

Sense（4）

(obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.

Sense（5）

Obsolete form of travel.

Sense（6）

Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”)

travails

（ plural ）

travaux

（ plural ）

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