travelled

trav·el

T0329700 (trăv′əl)v. trav·eled, trav·el·ing, trav·els or trav·elled or trav·el·ling v.intr.1. a. To go from one place to another, as on a trip; journey.b. To go from place to place as a salesperson or agent.2. a. To move or pass, as from one person to another: Reports of the king's death traveled from village to village.b. To be transmitted, as light or sound: the speed at which sound travels through water.c. To move along a course, as a phonograph needle in the groove of a record.d. Informal To move swiftly: This car can really travel.3. To go about in the company of a particular group; associate: travels in wealthy circles.4. To admit of being transported without loss of quality; Some wines travel poorly.5. Basketball To move illegally while holding the ball, usually by taking more than two steps between dribbles or by moving a foot that has been established as a pivot.v.tr. To pass or journey over or through; traverse: travel the roads of Europe.n.1. The act or process of traveling from one place to another: With the railroad, travel between cities became swift.2. travelsa. A series of journeys: her travels in Africa.b. An account of one's journeys.3. The activity or business of arranging trips or providing services for travelers: She works in travel.4. a. Movement or passage: the travel of the planets around the sun.b. The motion of a piece of machinery, especially of a reciprocating part; stroke.c. The length of a mechanical stroke.

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[Middle English travelen, alteration of travailen, to toil, from Old French travailler; see travail.]

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trav·eled

or trav·elled T0329900 (trăv′əld)adj.1. Having made journeys; experienced in travel.2. Frequented by travelers: a heavily traveled road.

travelled

(ˈtrævəld) or

traveled

adjhaving experienced or undergone much travelling: a travelled urbane epicure.

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travelled - familiar with many parts of the world; "a traveled, educated man"; "well-traveled people"traveledcosmopolitan - composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"

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