trek

CEFRB1

/tɹɛk/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To make a long and difficult journey on foot.

  2. 02

    noun

    A long, difficult journey.

Examples

  • The daily trek to midtown Manhattan takes about an hour and a half.

  • We're taking a crash course in first aid before our two-week trek through the mountains.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. A slow or difficult journey.

  2. The Boer migration of 1835–1837.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A journey by ox wagon.

More examples

In context

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

  • We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.

  • Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach the US southern border.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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”).