Other Word Forms
- well-traveled adjective
Etymology
Origin of traveled
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; travel, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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So we called time-traveling criminals Butterflies, despite the fluffiness of the word, because they traveled back to the past to change something.
From Literature
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“He traveled every other possession,” said Loeb, who served as Crean Lutheran’s top assistant coach last season.
From Los Angeles Times
Carney has also traveled China, where he negotiated a trade detente with Beijing.
The former official also said that a senior Iranian leader, Ali Larijani, had traveled to Oman and Russia in recent weeks.
She has traveled to Kyiv aiming to set up partnerships between enfeebled German automobile and machine makers—industries that currently shed 15,000 specialist jobs a month—and Ukrainian arms companies.
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