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travelsome

travelsome adjective: characterised or marked by travelling.

Adjective

travelsome (comparative more travelsome, superlative most travelsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by travelling.
    • The book was published in 1901 in London, and is now (such are the vagaries of our travelsome scholarship) kept under lock and key in the Deering Library of Northwestern University.1988, Erich Heller, The Importance of Nietzsche
    • The Caribou is a travelsome beast, always in a hurry, going against the wind.2010, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Arctic Prairies

Forms of travelsome

comparativemore travelsome
superlativemost travelsome

Origin of travelsome

From travel + -some. Piecewise doublet of travailsome.

Questions about travelsome

What does travelsome mean?
Travelsome means characterised or marked by travelling.
What part of speech is travelsome?
Travelsome is an adjective.

Words near travelsome in the dictionary

  1. travelpreneur
  2. travelpreneurs
  3. travels
  4. travels light
  5. travelshed
  6. travelsome
  7. Travelstead
  8. Travelsteads
  9. traveltime
  10. traveltime curve
  11. traveltime curves

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