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# travelled

«travelled» in Mova's school dictionary: **Went from one place to another, especially far away: "We…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past tense and past participle of travel)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Went from one place to another, especially far away: "We travelled to Scotland." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#m1)

2) Moved: "Sound travels through air." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life families have travelled by car, train or plane on holiday. In science, light and sound have "travelled" a distance; in maths, distance-speed-time problems ask how far something travelled. Phrases: travelled by train, travelled abroad, well-travelled, travelled far.

### examples

- We travelled to Ireland by ferry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#x1)
- The car travelled 120 kilometres in two hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#x2)
- Light travelled from the Sun to the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#x3)
- My grandma has travelled all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#x4)
- The news travelled fast around the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#x5)
- They travelled by bus to the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/#x6)

### note

Spelling: British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English write "travelled", "travelling" with double l; American English writes "traveled", "traveling" with one l. Both are correct. In maths, distance travelled = speed × time: 60 kilometres an hour for 2 hours = 120 kilometres.

### In the corpora

- [Spelling also differs by country: British «travelled», American «traveled»; both are right at home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/16/)
- [Few traders travelled the whole Silk Road; goods usually passed from merchant to merchant and market to market.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/11/)
- [Along the Silk Road travelled not only goods but also ideas, religions and inventions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/9/)
- [Sharp volcanic glass called obsidian travelled hundreds of kilometres over 10,000 years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/10/)
- [Paul travelled across the Roman world starting churches, and was shipwrecked, beaten and put in prison, yet he kept going.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/20-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «travelled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/travelled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.