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
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.16 Lord Tennyson.
From Poems on Travel by Various
The atmosphere and the life and the ways of the people are a little beyond the imagination of the untravelled western man.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry
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