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Trek

//tɹɛk// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Star Trek. abbreviation, alt-of
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Star Trek. abbreviation, alt-of

    "Spock’s half-brother Cybok virtually brought Kirk and McCoy to their knees with a simple imposing of their own self-reflection. […] it gave the writers of Trek a generic bad guy that is best described as a eccentric-lunatic genius on a personal quest which consequently affects the universe on a catastrophic level."

Noun
  1. 1
    A journey by ox wagon. South-Africa
  2. 2
    any long and difficult trip wordnet
  3. 3
    The Boer migration of 1835–1837. South-Africa
  4. 4
    a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) wordnet
  5. 5
    A slow or difficult journey.

    "We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro."

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  1. 6
    A long walk.

    "I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make a slow or arduous journey. intransitive

    "Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job."

  2. 2
    make a long and difficult journey wordnet
  3. 3
    To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas. intransitive
  4. 4
    journey on foot, especially in the mountains wordnet
  5. 5
    To travel by ox wagon. South-Africa
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  1. 6
    To travel by walking. Nigeria

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

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