- a variation of untraveled.
untravelled
Britishadjective
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(of persons) not having travelled widely; narrow or provincial
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(of a road) never travelled over
Example Sentences
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Hers was the only car on the road then and she was surprised to see, on such an untravelled byway, another billboard advertising “The Acceptance Journey.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
These are in many cases some fairly callow untravelled youths, like a slightly tougher version of the blokes from The Inbetweeners.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
The railways and the hotels have between them so churned up the people that an untravelled man or woman is a rare animal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The untravelled man soon finds out the difference between an English and a Continental City, and habits of the people.
From From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. by J. Wardle
W. W. Jacobs will give a salty, far-sea-faring flavour to the most untravelled public-house in Poplar, in merely recounting a trifling difference of opinion between some of the customers!
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Flora Klickmann
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