travelogue

English

Alternative forms

• travelog (US)

Etymology

Supposedly a blend of travel +‎ monologue, coined by Elias Burton Holmes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹavə(l)lɒɡ/

Noun

travelogue (plural travelogues)

1. A description of someone's travels, given in the form of narrative, public lecture, slide show or motion picture.
   • 2012, R.K. Wilson, The Literary Travelogue: A Comparative Study with Special Relevance to Russian Literature from Fonvizin to Pushkin, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:

     During this period, and especially in Russia, the travelogue becomes a hybrid genre comprising elements of poetry, prose, and the drama.

   • 2016, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotated, MarcoPolo, →ISBN:

     The Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing.

Derived terms

• traveloguelike

Translations

description of someone's travels

• Armenian: ուղեգրություն (hy) (uġegrutʻyun)
• Czech: cestopis (cs) m
• Dutch: reisverslag (nl) n
• Finnish: matkakertomus (fi), matkapäiväkirja (fi), matkakirja (fi)
• German: Reisebericht (de) m
• Hindi: सफ़रनामा m (safarnāmā)
• Hungarian: útleírás (hu), úti beszámoló, útirajz (hu), útiélmény-beszámoló
• Irish: cuntas taistil m, scéal taistil m
• Japanese: 旅行記 (ja) (ryokōki)
• Limburgish: reisverslaag n
• Macedonian: па́топис m (pátopis)
• Persian: سفرنامه (fa) (safar-nâme)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пу̏топӣс m

  Roman: pȕtopīs (sh) m

• Slovak: cestopis (sk) m
• Turkish: gezi konferansı, seyahatname (tr)

See also

• itinerary

Further reading

• “travelogue”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.