travers

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adverb

across; athwart

OriginFrench travers →
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Meanings

travers1

adverbtravers (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteacross; athwart

    1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles The earl […] caused […] high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one over another.

Travers2

proper noun
  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A place name:
    1. A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
    2. An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
    3. A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.

Origin

travers · adverb

  1. Frenchtravers“breadth, extent from side”
  2. Englishtravers

From French travers (“breadth, extent from side”). See traverse.

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Travers · proper noun

  1. IrishÓ Treabhair
  2. Anglo-Normantraverser“to cross”
  3. EnglishTravers

From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.

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APA

travers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/travers

MLA

“travers.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/travers. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “travers,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/travers.

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