Past tense of travel; moved from one place to another, especially over long distances.
From Old French 'travail' (work, toil), which came to mean 'to journey' because traveling was arduous work. British spelling maintains the double 'l' from French convention; American English uses single 'l'.
The word 'travelled' originally meant the hard work and suffering of a journey—back when travel meant weeks of difficult riding or sailing—which is why we call difficult experiences 'travails' and why 'travail' is still a word for painful labor.
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