heavily traveled
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- adjective
- /ˈhɛvɪli ˈtrævəld/
- US
:
muy transitado
- The tourist attraction is located on a heavily traveled route that many visitors use.
- heavily traveled road
- heavily traveled route
- heavily traveled street
Examples
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Nearly all of those routes are heavily traveled high-speed streets with no infrastructure for cyclists.
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Next to the novitiate was a heavily traveled snowmobile trail, he argued, and the risks of someone getting shot would have been too high.
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Is 55 too low for a heavily traveled and wide highway like the Garden State?
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One of its most visible structures is a green arch on the heavily traveled Chapultepec Avenue.
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Furthermore, new developments within these areas are concentrated near the most heavily traveled routes, where the greatest numbers of people are exposed to them, because they must be easily accessible in order to be successful.
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Taking 20% of them off the roads during the most heavily traveled time of the day would obviously reduce the overall amount of pollutants produced by our autos.
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A rush of seawater washed out miles of coastline track and a switch that directs some of NJ Transit’s most heavily traveled rail lines into New York City.
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On October 18, 2012, the Associated Press reported that "a massive dust storm swirling reddish-brown clouds over northern Oklahoma triggered a multi-vehicle accident along a major interstate... forcing police to shut down the heavily traveled roadway amid near blackout conditions."
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The heavily traveled main street often gets congested during rush hour.
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During the holiday season, this area becomes even more heavily traveled as shoppers flock to the stores.
Antonyms
How Busy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'used by a large number of vehicles or people' is directly derivable from 'heavily' (very much) combined with 'traveled' as a past-participial adjective meaning 'used for travel'. This follows a common intensifier + participle composition pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the road/route sense (noting that 'well-traveled' can mean an experienced person in other contexts).
Etymology
Heavily traveled paints a simple picture: a road that is heavily used because many people and vehicles have traveled over it, so it looks worn and crowded. So it means 'busy' or 'with a lot of traffic'.