travelogue

noun

trav·​el·​ogue ˈtra-və-ˌlȯg How to pronounce travelogue (audio)
-ˌläg
variants or travelog
1
: a piece of writing about travel
2
: a talk or lecture on travel usually accompanied by a film or slides
3
: a narrated motion picture about travel

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From these plots Du turns Coconut Trees into a miniature travelogue and existential road picture—come for the beautiful locales, stay for a conversation about fate, faith, and regret worthy of Rohmer—with faint wisps of a ghost tale. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2025 There’s a point near the start of Che Guevara’s classic travelogue The Motorcycle Diaries when the young Marxist revolutionary crosses from his native Argentina into the unknown wilderness of Chilean Patagonia. Mark Johanson, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024 To describe this dystopian reality, Clapp assembles a narrative that is part history, part sociology, part horrifying travelogue. Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025 Structured like a travelogue, A Real Pain follows two cousins on a Holocaust tour through modern-day Poland. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for travelogue

Word History

Etymology

travel + -logue

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of travelogue was in 1892

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“Travelogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/travelogue. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

travelogue

noun
trav·​el·​ogue
variants or travelog
1
: an illustrated lecture or film about travel
2
: a piece of writing about travel

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