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TRAVEL ALONG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does travel along mean?
• TRAVEL ALONG (verb)
The verb TRAVEL ALONG has 1 sense:
1. travel along a certain course
Familiarity information: TRAVEL ALONG used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel along a certain course
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
follow; travel along
Context example:
follow the trail
Hypernyms (to "travel along" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "travel along"):
heel (follow at the heels of a person)
ascend (go along towards (a river's) source)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
"If you have explored the east, we should travel along the base of the cliff to the west, and seek for a practicable point for our ascent."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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