Travers
adv, name
adv, name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 across; athwart not-comparable, obsolete
"1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles The earl […] caused […] high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname originating as an occupation.
- 2 A place name:; A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
- 3 A place name:; An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
- 4 A place name:; A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.
Example
More examples"Before Tom could make his aim certain, Jim Travers popped in front, so in line with the beast that the young marksman could not fire at one without risk of hitting the other."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.
Etymology 2
From French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.
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