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TRAVELLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Familiar with many parts of the world
Example:
well-traveled people
Synonyms:
traveled; travelled
Classified under:
Similar:
cosmopolitan (composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb travel
Context examples:
It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Seven miles were travelled in expectation of enjoyment, and every body had a burst of admiration on first arriving; but in the general amount of the day there was deficiency.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner time the next day.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The bullets we had received had travelled nearly a mile, but by now we had cut that distance in half.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
We travelled at the time of the vintage and heard the song of the labourers as we glided down the stream.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The road along which he travelled was scarce as populous as most other roads in the kingdom, and far less so than those which lie between the larger towns.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined as the distance of one centimeter travelled per unit time equal to one second.
(Centimeter per Second, NCI Thesaurus)
As this infrared light travelled across space, the expansion of the Universe stretched it to wavelengths more than ten times longer by the time it reached Earth and was detected by ALMA.
(ALMA and VLT Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang, ESO)
So he took the purse, put up his fiddle, and travelled on very pleased with his bargain.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There he wandered for a week, seeking vainly for fresh sign of the wild brother, killing his meat as he travelled and travelling with the long, easy lope that seems never to tire.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
