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Journey   /dʒˈərni/   Listen
noun
Journey  n.  (pl. journeys)  
1.
The travel or work of a day. (Obs.) "We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey."
2.
Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time. "The good man... is gone a long journey."
3.
Hence: (figurative), A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another. "We must all have the same journey's end."
4.
The distance that is traveled in a journey (2), or the time taken to complete a journey (2); as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey.
Synonyms: Tour; excursion; trip; expedition; pilgrimage; jaunt. 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.



verb
Journey  v. t.  To traverse; to travel over or through. (R.) "I journeyed many a land."



Journey  v. i.  (past & past part. journeyed; pres. part. journeying)  To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. "Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south."






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"Journey" Quotes from Famous Books



... but the weather delightful—that is to say, clear and frosty; and, even without foliage, the country through which I posted was beautiful. The subject of my journey was a pleasant one. I anticipated an agreeable visit, and a cordial welcome; and the weather and scenery were precisely of the sort to second the cheerful associations with which my excursion had been undertaken. Let no one, therefore, suggest that I was predisposed for the reception of gloomy or ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... first place the company was shut in with him there, and could not escape as out of a room; in the next place he heard all that was said in a carriage, where it was my turn to be deaf.' Piozzi's Anec. p. 276. See post, iii, 5, 162. Gibbon, at the end of a journey in a post-chaise, wrote (Misc. Works, i. 408):—'I am always so much delighted and improved with this union of easeand motion, that, were not the expense enormous, I would travel every year some hundred ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... dismay, was lost. With a sack of salt tied across his saddle, he had ridden out that morning to fill one of the salt-logs near a spring where the cattle came to drink. He had found the log, filled it, and had turned to retrace his journey when a flock of wild turkeys strung out across his course. His horse, from which the riders of the Concho had aforetime shot turkeys, broke into a kind of reminiscent lope, which quickened as the turkeys wheeled and ran swiftly ...
— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... gave a sigh of satisfaction and sat down, as if he had reached the end of a day's journey. He tasted his coffee, and kicked off first one of his gleaming patent leather slippers and then the other, and drew up his feet under him on the broad leather seat, and drank more coffee, and lit a big cigarette; after which he sat almost motionless for at least half an hour, looking ...
— Fair Margaret - A Portrait • Francis Marion Crawford

... not know thy person; and his spies, Who so long watched thee, have been left at Hamburgh. Our unexpected journey, and this change Of name, leaves all discovery far behind: 110 None hold us here for aught ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron


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