traveled
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having journeyed to or experienced many different places: Describes a person who has taken many trips, especially to various countries or regions, and is therefore knowledgeable about the world.
- Frequented by travelers: Describes a road, route, or path that is used by many people on journeys.
Usage and Examples
Describing a person:
- She is a traveled and sophisticated journalist.
- The traveled professor shared fascinating stories from his years abroad.
Describing a route:
- We avoided the main highway and took a less traveled road.
- This is a well-traveled path through the mountains.
Advanced Usage and Notes
- The adjective traveled often implies that the experience from journeys has contributed to a person's worldly knowledge or sophistication.
- It is commonly used in its hyphenated form as a combining term, especially when preceded by an adverb like "well," "widely," or "much."
- He is a well-traveled diplomat. (This is a common compound adjective.)
- She is one of the most widely-traveled people I know.
Variants and Related Words
- Well-traveled (adj): Having traveled extensively, especially to diverse or distant places.
- The gallery owner was a well-traveled art collector.
- Much-traveled (adj): Having traveled a great deal.
- The much-traveled suitcase was covered in stickers from different countries.
Synonyms
- Worldly: Experienced in and knowledgeable about human affairs, especially through travel.
- Globetrotting: Traveling widely around the world.
- Journeyed: Having traveled (a slightly more formal or literary synonym).
Antonyms
- Untraveled: Not having traveled, especially to foreign places; also, describing a path not used by many.
- Provincial: Having a narrow, limited outlook focused on a local area; unsophisticated.
- Insular: Ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.
Adjective
- familiar with many parts of the world
- a traveled, educated man
- well-traveled people
- traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term