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Journey

Journey Meaning & Definition
Journey Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Journey?

[n] the act of traveling from one place to another
[v] undertake a journey or trip
[v] travel upon or across; "travel the oceans"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Journey: journeying | travel

Related Terms | Find terms related to Journey: campaign | career | circuit | course | cruise | excursion | expedition | fare | gad about | gallivant | globe-trot | go | go abroad | go on safari | go overseas | grand tour | hie | hit the trail | jaunt | journeyings | journeys | junket | make a journey | make a pilgrimage | make a trip | odyssey | outing | package tour | pass | passage | passing | peregrinate | peregrination | peregrinations | peripatetics | pilgrim | pilgrimage | pleasure trip | proceed | process | progress | push on | range | range the world | repair | roam | round trip | route | rove | rubberneck | rubberneck tour | run | safari | sally | shoot | sight-see | stalk | take a trip | take the road | tour | transit | transition | travel | travels | trek | trip | turn | voyage | voyagings | wander | wanderings | way | wayfare | wend

See Also | circuit | cruise | digression | drive | excursion | expedition | fly | globe-trot | go | jaunt | jaunt | junket | leg | locomote | long haul | move | mush | navigate | odyssey | outing | passage | pilgrimage | pilgrim's journey | pleasure trip | ride | ride | sail | sashay | ship | sledge | stage | tour | tour | transit | travel | traveling | travelling | trek | trek | trip | trip | voyage | voyage | way

Journey In Webster's Dictionary

\Jour"ney\, n.; pl. {Journeys}. [OE. jornee, journee, prop., a day's journey, OF. jorn['e]e, jurn['e]e, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journ['e]e, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See {Journal}.] 1. The travel or work of a day. [Obs.] --Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. --Milton. 2. Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life. The good man . . . is gone a long journey. --Prov. vii. 19. We must all have the same journey's end. --Bp. Stillingfleet. Syn: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage. Usage: {Journey}, {Tour}, {Excursion}, {Pilgrimage}. The word journey suggests the idea of a somewhat prolonged traveling for a specific object, leading a person to pass directly from one point to another. In a tour, we take a roundabout course from place to place, more commonly for pleasure, though sometimes on business. An excursion is usually a brief tour or trip for pleasure, health, etc. In a pilgrimage we travel to a place hallowed by our religions affections, or by some train of sacred or tender associations. A journey on important business; the tour of Europe; an excursion to the lakes; a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
\Jour"ney\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Journeyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Journeying}.] To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. --Gen. xii. 9.
\Jour"ney\, v. t. To traverse; to travel over or through. [R.] ``I journeyed many a land.'' --Sir W. Scott.

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