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Journey Definition

journey

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English journee, from Old French jornee, from Medieval Latin diurnata (“a day's work, a day's journey, a fixed day, a day”), from Latin diurnus (“daily”), from diēs (“day”).

Noun

journey (plural journeys)

  1. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
  2. (obsolete) A day.
  3. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  4. (obsolete) A day's work.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:
      But whan ye have done that journey, ye shall promyse me, as ye ar a trew knyght, for to go and helpe me and other damesels that ar dystressed dayly with a false knyght.

Hyponyms

Verb

journey (third-person singular simple present journeys, present participle journeying, simple past and past participle journeyed)

  1. To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

Synonyms

Translations

to travel, to make a trip or voyage

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