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trek

/tɹɛk/ noun

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noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about trek at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
  2. Any long and difficult trip.

verb

  1. Journey on foot, especially in the mountains.
    We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas
  2. Make a long and difficult journey.
    They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis

Origin

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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