Definition of 'journey'
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense journeys
, present participle journeying
, past tense, past participle journeyed
1. countable noun
When you make a journey, you travel from one place to another.
There is an express service from Paris which completes the journey to Bordeaux in
under 4 hours. [+ to]
2. countable noun
usage note: Do not confuse journey, voyage, trip, and excursion. A journey is the process of travelling from one place to another by land, air, or sea. ...a journey of over 2,000 miles. If you journey to a place, you travel there. This is a literary use. The nights became colder as they journeyed north. A voyage is a very long journey from one place to another, usually by sea or through space.
...the voyage to the moon in 1972. A trip is the process of travelling from one place to another, staying there, usually for
a short time, and coming back again. ...a business trip to Milan. Note that the verb trip is not used with this meaning. An excursion is a short trip made either as a tourist or in order to do a particular thing. The tourist office organizes excursions to the palace of Knossos.
You can refer to a person's experience of changing or developing from one state of mind to another as a journey.
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journey in British English
noun
1.
verb
3. (intransitive)
to make a journey
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Derived forms
journeyer (ˈjourneyer) noun
Word origin
C13: from Old French journee a day, a day's travelling, from Latin diurnum day's portion; see diurnalWord Frequency
journey in American English
nounWord forms: plural ˈjourneys
1.
the act or an instance of traveling from one place to another; trip
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈjourneyed or ˈjourneying
SIMILAR WORDS: trip
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Derived forms
journeyer (ˈjourneyer)
noun
Word origin
ME journee < OFr < VL *diurnata, day's journey, day's work < LL diurnum, a daily portion < L diurnus, daily < dies, day: see deityWord Frequency
journey in American English
(ˈdʒɜːrni) (noun plural -neys, verb -neyed, -neying)
noun
1.
a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip
a six-day journey across the desert
3.
a period of travel
a week's journey
intransitive verb
SYNONYMS 1. excursion, jaunt, tour. See trip1. 5. roam, rove; peregrinate.5.
to make a journey; travel
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Derived forms
journeyer noun
Word origin
[1175–1225; ME journee day ‹ OF ‹ VL *diurnāta a day's time, day's work, etc., equiv. to L diurn(us) daily + -āta, fem. of -ātus -ate1; see -ade1]Examples of 'journey' in a sentence
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British English: journey
/ˈdʒɜːnɪ/ NOUN
When you make a journey, you travel from one place to another.
Their journey took them from one side of the country to the other.
- American English: journey /dˈʒɜrni/
- Arabic: رِحْلَةٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: jornada
- Chinese: 旅行
- Croatian: putovanje
- Czech: cesta podniknutá
- Danish: rejse
- Dutch: reis
- European Spanish: trayecto
- Finnish: matka
- French: trajet
- German: Reise
- Greek: ταξίδι
- Italian: viaggio
- Japanese: 旅行
- Korean: 여행
- Norwegian: reise
- Polish: podróż
- European Portuguese: jornada
- Romanian: călătorie
- Russian: путешествие
- Latin American Spanish: trayecto
- Swedish: resa
- Thai: การเดินทาง
- Turkish: yolculuk
- Ukrainian: подорож
- Vietnamese: hành trình
British English: journey
VERB /ˈdʒɜːnɪ/
If you journey somewhere, you travel there.
In February, she journeyed to the country for the first time.
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