journe

• journee, journey, jorne, jornee, jorney, jornay, jornaye, gurnay, jurnei, jurnee

Borrowed form Old French jornee, from Medieval Latin diurnata.

• IPA^(key): /dʒurˈneː/, /dʒurˈnɛi̯/

journe (plural journes)

1. An endeavour or enterprise; an attempt at something:
   1. A journey; a travelling or trip.

      • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerk's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 783-784:

        Toward Saluces shaping hir journey, / Fro day to day they ryden in hir wey […]

        Towards Saluzzo they point their journey, / From day to day they ride on their way […]

   2. A military enteprise or operation.
   3. A battle, fight or conflict.
   4. (figuratively) The happenings of life.
   5. (figuratively) Mortality; the final event of one's life.
2. The happenings or accomplishments of a day:
   1. A day of fighting, tilting, or jousting.
   2. The amount of work set or completed in a day.
   3. A day's worth of travel or voyaging.
   4. A unit of distance equalling a the distance covered in a day of travel (around 20 miles)
   5. (rare) The fruits or results of a day or its work.
3. A day (period of 24 hours).

• jorneman
• jorneyen
• journeier
• journeyinge

• English: journey
• Scots: jurney

• “jǒurnei (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.