time-travel

verb

To travel through time.

Meanings

nountime-travel (uncountable)

alternative time travel · alternative timetravel

  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of time travel.
    1 more example

    Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans. Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.

    2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2013
verbtime-travel (third-person singular simple present time-travels, present participle (US) time-traveling or (UK) time-travelling, simple past and past participle (US) time-traveled or (UK) time-travelled)

present singular third person time-travels · US participle present time-traveling · UK participle present time-travelling · US participle past time-traveled · US past time-traveled · UK participle past time-travelled · UK past time-travelled · alternative time travel · alternative timetravel

  1. intransitiveTo travel through time.
  2. slangTo sleep.

Origin

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APA

time-travel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/time-travel

MLA

“time-travel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/time-travel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “time-travel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/time-travel.

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