TRAVELLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does travelled mean? 

• TRAVELLED (adjective)
  The adjective TRAVELLED has 1 sense:

1. familiar with many parts of the world

  Familiarity information: TRAVELLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAVELLED (adjective)

Sense 1

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 

That day and that night we had nothing to eat, and all next day we travelled fast, and we were weak with hunger.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The little which I had yet to learn of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back next day.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Of course I know it," she answer, and with a pause, add: "Have not my Jonathan travelled it and wrote of his travel?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Well, Watson, what do you think of it?” asked Holmes, as we travelled back next morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He knew hardly any books, but he had travelled far, had seen much of the world.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How could I have seen it had I not travelled?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had a vague memory that as I have travelled by it I have occasionally seen windows just above my head.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And he appealed to me, whether in those countries I had travelled, as well as my own, I had not observed the same general disposition.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had travelled far, too far to go back.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He opened his whole heart to me yesterday as we travelled.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)