journey
See also: Journey
English
Etymology
From Middle English journe, jorney, 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”). Displaced native reys.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɜːni/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
Noun
journey (plural journeys)
- A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
- 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171:
- Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
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- (obsolete) A day.
- (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
- (obsolete) A day's work.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vij, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
- But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vij, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
- The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
- (collective, colloquial) A group of giraffes.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:journey
Translations
trip, a voyage
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Verb
journey (third-person singular simple present journeys, present participle journeying, simple past and past participle journeyed)
Synonyms
Translations
to travel, to make a trip or voyage
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Further reading
- journey in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- journey in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- journey at OneLook Dictionary Search
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