Usually means: Laborious effort; hard work, suffering.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. travail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. travail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. travail: Collins English Dictionary
  4. travail: Wiktionary
  5. travail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. travail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. travail: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. travail: Dictionary.com
  9. travail (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Travail (film), Travail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Travail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. travail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. travail: Rhymezone
  14. Travail, travail (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. travail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. travail: Free Dictionary
  17. travail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. travail: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  19. travail: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. travail: Vocabulary.com
  21. Travail, travail: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Travail (band), travail: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. travail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Travail (band), travail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. travail: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travail: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See travailed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
noun:  Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
noun:  (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
noun:  (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
verb:  To toil.
verb:  To go through the labor of childbirth.
noun:  Obsolete form of travel. [The act of traveling; passage from place to place.]
noun:  Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”) [(originally and chiefly Canada, US, historical) A frame, often consisting of two poles tied together at one end to form a V-shaped structure with the vertex attached to a dog, horse, etc., or held by a person and the other ends touching the ground, which was used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land.]

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