Other forms: travelers
A traveler is somebody on a journey. A weary traveler, seasoned traveler, fellow traveler.
This is the American spelling with one l; British English writes traveller with two, and the rule behind it is that British English doubles a final l before a suffix and American English does not. A fellow traveler once meant a sympathiser with communism who was not a member, and that political sense is still live. Note traveler's cheque, now largely obsolete.
1nountravelerSomebody on a journey.
“The tired traveler slept on a bench at the station until his train arrived.”
traveler is a person journeying.
Also accepted in games: traveller
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₂ǵ-
Old French
travailler — to trouble, suffer, be worn out
gmw-msc
travailen — to toil, work, travel
Middle English
travelen — to make a laborious journey, travel
English
travel
English, today
traveler
From travel + -er. travel comes from Middle English travelen (“to make a laborious journey, travel”) from gmw-msc travailen (“to toil, work, travel”), alteration of Middle English travaillen (“to toil, work”), from Old French travailler (“to trouble, suffer, be worn out”). See the doublets a doublet of travail and travois. Compare typologically routine << rupta via. Note the inverse semantic vectors: travel moves from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey), while routine moves from an objective object (beaten path) to a subjective pattern (habit). Largely displaced native fare, from Old English faran (“to go [a long distance], to travel”). More at fare.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA