traveled

English

Alternative forms

• travelled (Commonwealth)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹævl̩d/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

traveled (comparative more traveled, superlative most traveled)

1. Frequented by travelers.
   • 1953, Chicago Review‎^[1], volume 7, University of Chicago Press:

     Here moss engreens the travelled stone; […]

   We climbed up a well traveled path.

2. Experienced in travel.

   Our guide was a much traveled young man.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto X:

     Thou bringest the sailor to his wife,
     ⁠And travell’d men from foreign lands;
     ⁠And letters unto trembling hands;
     And, thy dark freight, a vanish’d life.

Usage notes

• Chiefly used in combination with an adverb: well-traveled, much-traveled.

Translations

frequented by travellers

• Bulgarian: много посещаван (mnogo poseštavan)
• Icelandic: fjölfarinn

Verb

traveled

1. (US) simple past and past participle of travel