TRAVELED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does traveled mean? 

• TRAVELED (adjective)
  The adjective TRAVELED has 2 senses:

1. traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term

2. familiar with many parts of the world

  Familiarity information: TRAVELED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAVELED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term

Similar:

heavily traveled (subject to much traffic or travel)

Antonym:

untraveled (not traveled over or through)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Familiar with many parts of the world

Synonyms:

traveled; travelled

Context example:

well-traveled people

Similar:

cosmopolitan (composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests)

 Context examples 

The spacecraft traveled more than six and a half years before it was inserted into orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011.

(NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury, NASA)

EXAMPLE(S): For a survey question, Have you traveled to Europe between 1990 and 1999?

(Defined Observation Focal Date Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

In the morning they traveled on until they came to a thick wood.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Even if you traveled in October, you still might do so again in November.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

FLP-7 then traveled through the circulatory system to start the fat burning process in the gut.

(Scientists Find Brain Hormone That Triggers Fat Burning, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is not likely that the sound could have traveled far into the plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This information can be used to estimate the distance traveled or calories used.

(Pedometer, NCI Thesaurus)

However, 2012 TC4 traveled out of the range of asteroid-tracking telescopes shortly after it was discovered.

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

The algorithms enabled automatic feature tracking to measure the distance that distinctive spots on the glaciers, such as crevasses or patches of dirt, traveled between an earlier and a later image.

(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)

By multiplying this amount of time by the speed of the particles, which is nearly the speed of light, scientists determine the maximum distance traveled.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)