trek

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4
Pronunciation
/tɹɛk/

Definition of trek

10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (South-Africa)A journey by ox wagon.
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noun

  1. (South-Africa)A journey by ox wagon.
  2. (South-Africa)The Boer migration of 1835–1837.
  3. A slow or difficult journey.
    “We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.”
    “Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.”
    “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.”
  4. A long walk.
    “I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.”

verb

  1. (intransitive)To make a slow or arduous journey.
    “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. (intransitive)To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
  3. (South-Africa)To travel by ox wagon.
  4. (Nigeria)To travel by walking.

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Star Trek.
    “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.”

adj

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Star Trek.

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Etymology

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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